JAXA proposes NGSR comet sample‑return mission for the 2030s
Building on Hayabusa/Hayabusa2 successes and the upcoming MMX Mars‑moon mission, JAXA presented the Next Generation Small‑Body Return (NGSR) concept at LPSC: a large‑class 2030s mission to collect and return pristine early‑Solar‑System material from a comet for laboratory study on Earth.