October 2020
Connecting the global space community
..., gender and other diversity aspects, thus living up to its motto ‘Connecting @ll Space People’. Artist impression of Hayabusa2 delivering its asteroid return capsule to Earth. About the interviewee Prof Pascal Ehrenfreund holds a Master degree...
May 2026
Focusing the world on planetary defence
... next century. Yet trust in these systems is just as important as their precision. Missions like OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa2 have advanced our ability to sample and understand asteroids, using innovative collection methods rather than deep...
May 2026
From Apollo to Artemis - Six decades of the Lunar and Planetary Institute
... sample science – spanning Apollo samples, meteorites and returned samples from missions such as OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa2 – and research on the geology and geophysics of Venus, the Moon, Mars and icy satellites. LPI scientists...
05 July 2019
JAXA, DLR to cooperate on Martian moons mission
... moon surface. JAXA is no stranger to sending spacecraft to other-world bodies to examine them up close. As part of their Hayabusa2 mission, which is currently exploring the asteroid Ryugu, the agency’s Mobile Asteroid and Surface Scout (MASCOT...
05 March 2021
For the first time, organic materials essential for life have been found on the surface of an asteroid
... is so similar to that of the prebiotic Earth,” Chan says. When coupled with the knowledge that both JAXA’s Hayabusa2 and NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex missions have identified exogeneous materials on the target asteroids Ryugu and Bennu...
