Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft is on track to attempt a first-of-its-kind sampling of asteroid Itokawa. Ground controllers on Saturday commanded the spacecraft to start a slow descent toward the space ...

China continued its interstellar exploration, with Tianwen-2 - the country's first asteroid probe and sampling mission - being successfully launched on Thursday early morning via a Long March-3B ...

China is set to launch its Tianwen-2 asteroid probe and sampling mission on May 29, according to information obtained by Global Times from the China National Space Administration on Monday.

This usually means that a sampling clock with a relatively fast edge and good signal integrity is required to obtain maximum performance from the ADC. A sampling clock of 50 MHz is required in one of ...