Japan spacecraft sends rovers to asteroid

Updated September 21 2018 - 8:01pm, first published 8:00pm
Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 is launching robotic rovers onto an asteroid.
Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 is launching robotic rovers onto an asteroid.

Two small robotic rovers released from a Japanese spacecraft are set to land on an asteroid 300 million kilometres away from Earth.

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