These #JAXA and #NASA missions both collected a sample from an asteroid and returned to Earth. But sample return is crazy difficult, and there's still no established way of pulling off this stunt. The two spacecraft therefore used very different tech.
For anyone who felt they couldn't speed-read these asteroid-biting spacecraft facts fast enough in our #Hayabusa2 vs #OSIRISREx mission comparison, here is a version with time to inhale!
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