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...
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...
February 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... and origin science are at the core of three missions in development or recently launched. Following the successful Hayabusa mission, Hayabusa-2, launched in November 2014, will perform a sample return of a water-rich asteroid. The OSIRIS-REx mission...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
...landing system is expected to descend from the Japanese Hayabusa 2 spacecraft onto the asteroid Ryugu (formerly 1999 JU3... by DLR. Mascot-1 is already in flight, carried on Japan’s Hayabusa-2 mission, launched on 3 December 2014 to land on its target ...
June 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... launching satellites to study comets in the 1980's. In 2003 the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Hayabusa probe, which successfully rendezvoused with the asteroid 25143 Itokawa and returned dust samples back to Earth...
