JAXA shared the news about the delay of the Japanese ... and the launch year for the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission has been officially revised from FY2024 to FY2026.

Little is known about their geological, mineralogical and geochemical properties. The Japanese space agency JAXA's MMX space probe aims to change this: it will study the two martian moons in detail ...

The autonomous 55-pound (25-kilogram) rover is called IDEFIX and is part of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Martian Moon Exploration (MMX) probe that aims to collect samples of the ...

JAXA's MMX will be its third mission, after the two Hayabusa missions to the asteroid belt, to acquire samples from distant bodies and transport them to Earth. The US space agency, NASA, the European ...

However, it will soon be put to the test. In 2026 the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are launching the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft, which is a sample-return mission ...

JAXA officials submitted a plan to the science ... A new H-3 rocket will be used to launch the exploration plan dubbed MMX in September 2024. If the project progresses as planned, the probe ...