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...
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 ...
21 February 2019
Hayabusa2 starts descent towards Ryugu
Hayabusa2, Japan’s audacious asteroid sample-return spacecraft, is getting ready to collect a chunk of ancient asteroid by steadily descending from its “home position” of 20 kilometres above Ryugu as it heads towards the rocky surface at a steady 90...
