https://asksendai.com/tags/mmx/ Recent content in Mmx on Ask Sendai Hugo en-us Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:10:22 +0000 https://asksendai.com/post/2026/10/16/japan-s-mm/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:10:22 +0000 https://asksendai.com/post/2026/10/16/japan-s-mm/ <figure><img src="https://orbinauts.com/_astro/mmx-at-mars.B40p_QMX_1zrF7P.webp" alt="Japan&#39;s MMX is set to launch for Mars on Monday at 19:41 UTC, on the most powerful version of its H3 rocket"> </figure> <p> An H3 rocket is to launch JAXA's probe from Tanegashima at 19:41 UTC on 19 October and release it on its way to Mars about 71 minutes later. Japan is about to send a spacecraft to fetch a piece of a moon of Mars. JAXA is targeting 4:41:03 a.m. Japan time on 20 October, which is 19:41:03 UTC on Monday 19 October, to launch the Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft, MMX, on the tenth H3 rocket from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Tanegashima Space Center. MMX is to be the first mission to collect a sample from Phobos and bring it back to Earth. </p>