January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
...planetary prebiotic compounds. JAXA’s current Hayabusa2 mission at Ryugu and NASA’s OSIRIS-REx at Bennu will return ...the Earth. Artist’s illustration of first touchdown at asteroid Ryugu. The Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return mission will return...
05 March 2021
For the first time, organic materials essential for life have been found on the surface of an asteroid
... which recently collected loose debris samples from asteroid Ryugu by firing a metal projectile into the rocky body...missions have identified exogeneous materials on the target asteroids Ryugu and Bennu, respectively, our findings suggest that mixing...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... Agency (JAXA), this landing system is expected to descend from the Japanese Hayabusa 2 spacecraft onto the asteroid Ryugu (formerly 1999 JU3) in 2018 to support the search for a suitable place for the main spacecraft to acquire...
July 2019
Next steps in human space exploration
... and beyond - Koichi Wakata Although our current focus is on robotic exploration and successful collection of a sample of the Ryugu asteroid using the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, the next step in human exploration is the lunar gateway and exploration...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... to commercialise space. In February 2019, a spacecraft launched by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) landed a spacecraft on the asteroid Ryugu following a three-and-a-half year journey. The previous month, China’s Chang’e 4 landed on the far side...
30 June 2017
A line up of global events for Asteroid Day 2017
... 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 results and what...
