Questions tagged [hayabusa2]
Questions about spaceprobe Hayabusa2, an asteroid sample-return mission launched by the Japanese space agency (JAXA). The main goal of the mission is asteroid Ryugu.
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How did Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission "make extensive use of deployable cameras to get scientific imagery"? Did it ever produce a "PR selfie"?
Scott Manley's recent video China's Mars Rover Zhurong Has Completed Its Primary Mission, Reaches New Milestone includes the following:
And if you thought that dropping a camera on the surface of ...
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Actual mass of Hayabusa 2 samples in 2020?
Similar to Actual mass of Hayabusa samples in 2010?, but about the recent mission.
What is the actual mass of the samples retrieved by Hayabusa 2?
The most detailed information I was able to find is:
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Why did Hayabusa-2's capsule's parachute have transparent panels?
JAXA's photo of Hayabusa-2's capsule, at its landing on 2020 Dec 6, shows that its parachute canopy had some non-opaque sections. Why?
Transparency has no advantage for this mission.
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Why is the Hayabusa2 capsule collection team in protective gear
Pictures posted on twitter (https://twitter.com/haya2e_jaxa/status/1335513393122316288/photo/2 and BBC (https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55201662) show a couple of team members in what ...
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How does Hayabusa2's return capsule orient and stabilize after separation and before and during reentry?
How does Hayabusa2's return capsule orient and stabilize after separation and before and during reentry? Have it some onboard system like RCS or reaction wheels, or does it rotate around longitudinal ...
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From interplanetary space to the Australian Outback, how will Hayabusa2's return capsule be tracked? Desert Fireball Network perhaps?
Wired.com's For the Second Time Ever, an Asteroid Sample Returns to Earth says that "the sample return capsule from Hayabusa2" will land "under parachute in the Australian outback" ...
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How to plot this orbit?
I have these data for some orbits, without any explanation about meaning of each datum:
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How large an asteroid sample does hayabusa2 have?
As the title says, is it known how big, or massive, hayabusa2's sample is, due for Earth touchdown on 6th December?
I have tried some basic internet research but found nothing on the anticipated ...
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How do Hayabusa-2's DCAM's work? (detachable cameras)
The screenshot below from the JAXAxxx video Mission Control Live: Hayabusa2 SCI Operation shows a diagram with DCAM3, a detachable camera that has the lucky job of watching the impact on Ryugu while ...
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How far did Hayabusa-2 back off before the "bomb" went off?
The BBC News article Hayabusa-2: Japanese probe set to 'bomb' an asteroid says:
The charge is carried on the Small Carry-On Impactor (SCI) device.
This is a 14kg conical container attached to ...
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How far will the debris cloud from Hayabusa-2's touch-and-go sample recovery travel around Ryugu? Will any have escaped to heliocentric orbit?
HAYABUSA2 MOMENT OF TOUCHDOWN
This animation, extracted from a longer video, shows the moment of Hayabusa2's 21 February 2019 touchdown on asteroid Ryugu. JAXA
Source: Planetary Society's Watch ...
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How can we be certain that Ryugu is a remnant of the material that did not form planets?
Its mentioned here https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/22/japans-hayabusa-2-successfully-touches-down-on-ryugu-asteroid that Ryugu is a part of the Solar System material that did not get ...
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How does Hayabusa-2's "Communication Simulator" on its website work? What does it show?
The pinned tweet on Hayabusa-2's Twitter account leads to http://haya2now.jp/en.html which is a kind of control panel readout of the spacecraft's situation.
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Diagram of Hayabusa 2 in "Hill Coordinate System"; what is that exactly? How to convert it to inertial?
These JAXA's Hayabusa-2's two Tweets: 1 2 show a diagram of the spacecraft's motion relative to Ruygu in what they call a Hill Coordinate System,
This is a diagram of the trajectory during solar ...
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How does the hopping mechanism of the Minerva II rovers work?
The Minerva II rovers deployed to Ryugu by Hayabusa 2 have gotten a lot of news coverage for their hopping method of locomotion. Is there public information on exactly how this works? I seem to recall ...
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