22 February 2019
Success for Hayabusa2 as it touches down on Ryugu
...a successful touchdown, including firing a bullet,” Yuichi Tsuda, Hayabusa 2 project manager, told reporters. “We made the ideal ... celebrating the success of a complex manoeuvre, Hayabusa 2 mission manager Makoto Yoshikawa said the complicated...
05 March 2021
For the first time, organic materials essential for life have been found on the surface of an asteroid
... projectile into the rocky body’s surface. Despite the failure of the mechanism designed to capture material on Itokawa, Hayabusa was still able to collect a small amount of dust and return it to Earth on 13 June, 2010. With its distinct...
16 March 2020
Porous nature of Ryugu suggests formation from fluffy particles, new study says
...samples from the surface of this primitive asteroid, JAXA’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft had spent a year and half taking detailed ... diamond shaped space rock. During its time at its target, Hayabusa 2 also made a number of global thermal infrared images of ...
05 April 2019
Hayabusa2 probe 'bombs' asteroid to create a crater
...years this primordial rock has spent wandering the cosmos, Hayabusa-2 will be able to collect freshly unearthed fragments that...year to explore the asteroid’s surface. After dropping the impactor, Hayabusa-2 had 40 minutes in which to hide away on 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...
27 June 2018
Hayabusa2 reaches Ryugu after a 42 month journey
Hayabusa2, Japan’s asteroid sample return mission has successfully settled into an observation position 20 kilometres (12 miles) above the Ryugu asteroid, after a three and half year journey to rendezvous with it’s intended target. Ryugu first came ...
