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JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) is Japan's national space agency and the organisation responsible for the Hayabusa2 mission. The spacecraft successfully carried out a high-precision flyby of the near-Earth asteroid Torifune as part of efforts to test planetary defence technologies. Hayabusa2 was originally launched in 2014, successfully collected samples from asteroid Ryugu, and returned them to Earth in 2020. The agency continues to play a significant role in space exploration, asteroid research, and the development of technologies to better understand and respond to potential threats from near-Earth objects.