22 February 2019
Success for Hayabusa2 as it touches down on Ryugu
Mission control at JAXA had good cause to celebrate last night as their sample-return spacecraft, Hayabusa2, successfully touched down on an ancient asteroid 300 million kilometres from Earth to then fire a metal ...
06 December 2020
Hayabusa2 capsule containing asteroid samples lands on Earth
... Associate Administrator Thomas Zurbuchen, along with many well wishers around the globe, congratulated JAXA on their sample-return success; "This is an extremely challenging endeavor and we commend and congratulate Japan on being not only the first...
21 February 2020
MMX mission gets green light to land on Phobos
...DLR (Germany) is to design the rover, which could explore the surface of Phobos. In addition to the sampling device and sample return capsule, JAXA’s contributions include a LIDAR laser altimeter, a dust monitor and a mass spectrum analyser, to study...
27 June 2018
Hayabusa2 reaches Ryugu after a 42 month journey
Hayabusa2, Japan’s asteroid sample return mission has successfully settled into an observation... surface and expose fresh material within the excavated crater. Samples will then be collected and returned to Earth for further testing by the end of 2020...
March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
... idea was even more ambitious: to land on the surface, collect a material sample and bring it back to Earth. However, early studies showed that a comet sample return mission would be too expensive, too risky and inefficient in terms of scientific...
October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
... well as approach detected sub-glacial water pockets to sample Safe and accurate landing The south polar terrain of Enceladus...plume channels. Other concepts ranging from plume fly-throughs and sample return, to melting all the way to the ocean of an ...
