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Troubled Japanese space agency seeks fresh start

Push to resurrect instrument lost during satellite failure highlights JAXA’s resilience.

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Witze, A. Troubled Japanese space agency seeks fresh start. Nature 536, 13–14 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/536013a

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