In order to study the origin of life and the universe, Japan launched the asteroid probe Hayabusa 2 in 2014.

为研究生命和宇宙起源，日本于 2014 年发射小行星探测器“隼鸟 2 号”。

But Hayabusa burned up in a failed re-entry attempt. The capsule, however, made it to Earth.

但是隼鸟飞船在重返大气层失败后烧毁。然而，太空舱却抵达了地球。

It follows the first Hayabusa mission which lasted from 2003 until 2010.

它是继从 2003 年持续到 2010 年的第一次隼鸟号任务之后的。

Hayabusa took three years longer than planned after a series of technical problems.

在经历了一系列技术问题后，隼鸟号的建造时间比原计划多了三年。

Many Japanese were impressed by the first Hayabusa mission, which they considered a big success given all the troubles it had experienced.

许多日本人对第一次隼鸟任务印象深刻，他们认为那是巨大的成功，因为它经历了所有的麻烦。

It was the second Japanese landing on an asteroid after another spacecraft, also called Hayabusa, touched down on a near-Earth asteroid in 2005.

这是日本第二次在小行星上着陆。此前，一艘也叫作" 隼鸟号" 的飞船曾于2005年在一颗近地小行星上着陆。

In 2010 Hayabusa, a Japanese spacecraft, visited an asteroid called Itokawa but returned with less than a milligram of it.

2010 年，日本航天器隼鸟号访问了一颗名为糸川的小行星，但返回时带回的物质不足一毫克。

This became more clear when the Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft visited the asteroid Itokawa, and saw what can only be described as a jumbled mess.

当日本的“隼鸟号”宇宙飞船访问伊川小行星时，这一点变得更加明显，并且还观测到了只能用混乱来形容的景象。

In December 2020, a capsule that had been carried on a six-year mission by Hayabusa 2 delivered more than 5.4 grams of surface material to Earth from the Ryugu asteroid 300 million kilometers away.

2020 年 12 月，隼鸟 2 号的回收舱六年任务期满，与主体分离，从 3 亿公里外的龙宫小行星向地球运送了超过 5.4 克的表面物质。

More than 20 types of amino acids have been detected in samples Hayabusa 2 brought back to Earth from the Ryugu asteroid in late 2020, the newspaper quoted a Japanese education ministry official as saying.

该报引自日本文部科学省官员的表述，探测器隼鸟 2 号在 2020 年底从龙宫小行星返回地球，科研人员在其带回的样本中检测到 20 多种氨基酸。

Hayabusa 2 left Earth in 2014 and reached its stationary position above the Ryugu asteroid in June 2018 after traveling 3.2 billion kilometers on an elliptical orbit around the sun for more than three years.

隼鸟 2 号于 2014 年离开地球，历时三年多、在绕太阳的椭圆轨道上飞行了 32 亿公里；此后，于 2018 年 6 月到达龙宫小行星星体上空。