22 February 2019
Success for Hayabusa-2 as it touches down on Ryugu
...deservedly celebrating the success of a complex manoeuvre, Hayabusa 2 mission manager Makoto Yoshikawa said the complicated ...a quick celebration, it was back to work for all involved. Hayabusa-2 was judged as ‘Go’ for the spacecraft to return to its ...
21 February 2019
Hayabusa-2 starts descent towards Ryugu
...diamond-shaped, primitive carbon space rock came into closer view. Hayabusa-2 will home in on a pre-selected patch of the rock...floating debris should be caught by the onboard sampler horn. Hayabusa-2 will hold onto any samples it manages to collect ...
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 ...
