Hayabusa2
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is an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese state space agency JAXA. It is a successor to the Hayabusa mission, which returned asteroid samples for the first time in June 2010. Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and rendezvoused in space with near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu on 27 June 2018. It surveyed the asteroid for a year and a half and took samples. It left the asteroid in November 2019 and returned the samples to Earth on 5 December 2020 UTC. Its mission has now been extended through at least 2031, when it will rendezvous with the small, rapidly-rotating asteroi
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- Hayabusa2
- Spaceflight.image
- Hayabusa2 Ion thruster.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Artist's impression of Hayabusa2 firing its ion thrusters
- Spaceflight.image_size
- 300px
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Asteroid sample-return
- Spaceflight.operator
- JAXA
- Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
- 2014-076A
- Spaceflight.SATCAT
- 40319
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 6 years (planned)( elapsed)
- Spaceflight.spacecraft_type
- Hayabusa
- Spaceflight.manufacturer
- NEC
- Spaceflight.launch_mass
- 600 kg
- Spaceflight.dimensions
- Spacecraft bus: Solar panel:
- Spaceflight.power
- 2.6 kW (at 1 au), 1.4 kW (at 1.4 au)
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- 3 December 2014,04:22:04 UTC
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Tanegashima Space Center, LA-Y
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- Mission overview
- Funding and history
- Spacecraft
- Firsts
- Science payload
- Remote sensing
- Rovers
- MINERVA-II
- MASCOT
- Objects deployed by ''Hayabusa2''
- Sampling
- Surface sample
- Sub-surface sample
- Sample return
- Mission extension (Hayabusa2♯)
- Dark Comet
- See also
- Japanese minor body probes
- Notes
- References
- External links
is an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese state space agency JAXA. It is a successor to the Hayabusa mission, which returned asteroid samples for the first time in June 2010. Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and rendezvoused in space with near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu on 27 June 2018. It surveyed the asteroid for a year and a half and took samples. It left the asteroid in November 2019 and returned the samples to Earth on 5 December 2020 UTC. Its mission has now been extended through at least 2031, when it will rendezvous with the small, rapidly-rotating asteroid .
Hayabusa2 carries multiple science payloads for remote sensing and sampling, and four small rovers to investigate the asteroid surface and analyze the environmental and geological context of the samples collected.
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