OKEANOS Mission's Original Plan

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OKEANOS—A mission that would have returned samples from the Trojan asteroids

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The Oversize Kite-craft for Exploration and AstroNautics in the Outer Solar system ( OKEANOS ) project was originally planned as a Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency mission.

The project team released a paper that details the original plan for the mission.

Some of those plans were incorporated into other missions that are still under development.

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