Hayabusa 2 was in the news in 2018–19. Which of the following statements regarding it is correct?

The correct choice is: “Asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese space Agency, JAXA.”

Hayabusa2 is an asteroid sample-return mission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). It was launched in December 2014, reached the near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu in June 2018, and made its first touchdown to collect samples in February 2019, which put it in the news. It later returned the samples to Earth in December 2020. It is not a Mars or Jupiter mission, is not military, and is not funded by NASA. It followed the first Hayabusa mission to the asteroid Itokawa.