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Several years ago, after the return of Japan’s Hayabusa space probe from the asteroid Itokawa but before the launch of Hayabusa2 in December 2014, I was discussing Japanese technology with a Silicon Valley executive. When I started to talk about JAXA (The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) he said: “I didn’t know Japan had a space […]
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