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An unmanned Japanese spacecraft has approached yesterday an asteroid located 300 million kilometers from Earth, announced the Japanese space agency.
The explorer Hayabusa 2 began to land shortly after 13 hours at 20 km altitude, where the asteroid Ryujo, 900 meters in diameter, is due to land today, according to the Japanese space agency JAXA.
The Japanese space agency said, according to "German", that the process had started five hours after the scheduled date.
"At a time when the start of the landing is about five hours late, the speed will rise slightly to five kilometers, so there will be no change in schedule for the landing. ", reported the JAXA news agency on the social networking site Twitter.
The space shuttle Hiabusa 2 departed the Tanigashima Space Center in Japan in December 2014 and arrived near the asteroid in June. The explorer is expected to return by the end of 2020, with samples of this place.
The explorer was to land on the asteroid in October, but the agency postponed the date because the surface was more rocky than expected.
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