Space Agency Loses Contact With Probe
From Times Wire Reports
Japan’s space agency said it had lost contact with the Minerva probe after a failed attempted landing on an asteroid.
The coffee-can-sized robotic lander has been drifting above the Itokawa asteroid since Saturday, when it was deployed from mother probe Hayabusa.
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