MMX Lifts Off on Mission to Explore Moons of Mars
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The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission launched from Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2 at Tanegashima Space Center in Japan, with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries as provider. The five-year Japanese mission aims to land on Phobos, a moon of Mars, collect samples, and return them to Earth, while also carrying a French/German rover to explore the moon's surface.
The five-year mission will return samples from Mars’ moon Phobos and answer long-standing questions about the moon’s origin.
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MMX lifts off to Mars’s moon PhobosESA, Oct 20, 2026Official
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