27 June 2018
Hayabusa 2 reaches Ryugu after a 42 month journey
Hayabusa 2, Japan’s asteroid sample return mission has successfully settled into an observation position 20 kilometres (12 miles) above the ...
30 June 2017
A line up of global events for Asteroid Day 2017
... off space agency coverage at 5.00 AM CET / GMT+2 live from Tokyo. Makoto Yoshikawa, the Principal Investigator of the Hayabusa-2 mission to asteroid Ryugu, will talk about the project including the science behind it, its goals, expected...
24 September 2018
Hayabusa2 rovers land successfully on Ryugu
Touchdown! The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 which has been in orbit around the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu since June, has successfully deployed two small rovers that have landed safely on its surface. The small, round, delicate-looking probes made a...
10 October 2018
MASCOT successfully surveys the surface of Ryugu
It had a big job to do in a small amount of time, and the 16 hour window in which the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) had to study the surface of Ryugu was soon over. But that was enough, and the shoebox-size probe which had hitched a ride ...
September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
... missions and their 382 kg of lunar rocks; of comets with the Stardust mission; and of asteroids with the Hayabusa mission. Until now, sample return missions have been led mostly by NASA in the US, by Roscosmos in Russia and...
October 2015
Baikonur, Kibo and beyond: Japan’s leading role in space
... at the moment - it takes over three hundred days to get there and back. Thus, international cooperation is essential. Hayabusa-2 is on its way to a C-type asteroid, which is believed to contain water and organic matter Watching the beautiful scene...
