Hayabusa2 - Science@NASA
Hayabusa2 is a follow-up to Japan’s original Hayabusa mission, which was the first spacecraft to take samples from an asteroid, and was also the first mission to successfully land and take off from an asteroid.
Hayabusa-2: Capsule with asteroid samples in 'perfect' shape - BBC
Dec 6, 2020 · The Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, which bypassed the Earth after releasing its capsule, is being sent on another mission. It will now travel to a much smaller, 30m-wide asteroid, reaching it in 2031.
Hayabusa2 - Wikipedia
Hayabusa2 (Japanese: はやぶさ2, lit.' Peregrine falcon 2') is an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese state space agency JAXA.
Hayabusa2 continues its journey, 10 years after launch
Dec 3, 2024 · Ten years after its launch, the unmanned asteroid probe Hayabusa2, which has successfully collected samples from the asteroid Ryugu, is continuing its journey to search for clues to the origins of...
News | JAXA HAYABUSA2 PROJECT
Hayabusa2 mission summary movie has been released, along with a movie summary of Hayabusa!
Hayabusa-2 News, Research and Analysis - The Conversation
Dec 4, 2020 · The Hayabusa2 mission brought a piece of asteroid Ryugu back to Earth, where it has helped scientists resolve a long-standing puzzle. If the building blocks of life were present …
Hayabusa-2: Capsule with asteroid samples in 'perfect' shape
Dec 6, 2020 · The Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, which bypassed the Earth after releasing its capsule, is being sent on another mission. It will now travel to a much smaller, 30m-wide asteroid, reaching it in 2031.
Hayabusa-2: Pieces of an asteroid found inside space capsule
Dec 15, 2020 · It's the first significant sample of material to be delivered to Earth from a space rock and was grabbed last year by Japan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft. Researchers began opening the capsule on...
Hayabusa-2: Asteroid mission exploring a 'rubble pile' - BBC News
Mar 19, 2019 · The asteroid being explored by the Japanese mission Hayabusa-2 is a "rubble pile" formed when rocks were blasted off a bigger asteroid and came back together again. The discovery means that...
Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft reaches cosmic 'diamond' - BBC
Hayabusa 2 will spend about a year and a half surveying the 900m-wide space rock, which is about 290 million km (180 million miles) from Earth. During this time, it will aim to deploy several...