22 February 2019
Success for Hayabusa2 as it touches down on Ryugu
... quick celebration, it was back to work for all involved. Hayabusa2 was judged as ‘Go’ for the spacecraft to return to its ... This will not be the only sample collection opportunity for Hayabusa2 however as later this year, perhaps in March or April,...
21 February 2019
Hayabusa2 starts descent towards Ryugu
... diamond-shaped, primitive carbon space rock came into closer view. Hayabusa2 will home in on a pre-selected patch of the rock...floating debris should be caught by the onboard sampler horn. Hayabusa2 will hold onto any samples it manages to collect and...
05 April 2019
Hayabusa2 probe 'bombs' asteroid to create a crater
...at Ryugu’s rugged surface to collect dislodged debris, JAXA’s Hayabusa2 probe has gone one better this time by 'bombing' ...SCI was one of several deployable modules carried to Ryugu by Hayabusa2, along with the three landers it released last year to ...
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 ...
10 October 2018
MASCOT successfully surveys the surface of Ryugu
... agency (CNES), last week the scout dropped 51 metres from Hayabusa2 to land safely on the asteroid below – much to the ...alone. Along with the MINERVA-II1 rovers, the overhead Hayabusa2 spacecraft is slowly moving into position ready to collect a ...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... there. These observations have given rise to an entire subfield in the study of planetary prebiotic compounds. JAXA’s current Hayabusa2 mission at Ryugu and NASA’s OSIRIS-REx at Bennu will return precious samples of these two enormous carbonaceous...
