The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said the spacecraft left its orbit around the asteroid Ryugu, about 300 million kilometres from Earth.
Then Hayabusa2 will adjust its position on around Nov. 18 after retreating 65 kilometres from the asteroid and out of its the gravitational pull. It will then receive a signal from JAXA to ignite a main engine in early December en route to the Earth's vicinity. In the first touchdown in February, it collected surface dust samples. In July, it collected underground samples for the first time in space history after landing in a crater it had earlier created by blasting the asteroid surface.
It took the spacecraft 3 1/2 years to arrive at the asteroid, but the journey home is much shorter thanks to the current locations of Ryugu and Earth.
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