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ESA Space in Images Title AIM's asteroid lander Released 15/04/2015 3:12 pm Copyright ESA-Science Office Description - Engineers recently began the preliminary design of ESA's Asteroid Impact Mission mission concept and are including a lander. If the mission comes to fruition touchdown would occur in late 2022. The asteroid lander is under study by the DLR German Aerospace Center, and is known as Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout-2, or Mascot-2. Mascot-1 is already in flight, carried on Japan's Hayabusa-2 mission, which was launched on 3 December 2014 to land on its target asteroid during 2018. To about the AIM mission concept, visit its new website. Id 338278 Click on the tags to find the matching images. Set Technology image of the week - Rating: 4.6 /5 ( 62 votes cast) Thank you for rating! You have already rated this page, you can only rate it once! Your rating has been changed, thanks for rating!
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