Just days after the release of two hopping rovers, Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft has dropped another robot towards asteroid Ryugu. On Wednesday, the French-German landing vehicle named the...
Japan’s Spacecraft Drops Another Robot on Asteroid Ryugu
Just days after the release of two hopping rovers, Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft has dropped another robot towards asteroid Ryugu. On Wednesday, the French-German landing vehicle named the...
JAXA's Hayabusa 2 has taken the most high-resolution photo of its target asteroid, the 162173 Ryugu, we've ever seen. Unlike previous images that only showed Ryugu from afar, this one shows its surface in detail -- you can clearly see its texture and...
After months of hovering around its target, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission has made contact. Two of the host spacecraft's landers (ROVER-1A and 1B) have touched down on the surface of the asteroid 162173 Ryugu and have already been hopping around as the...
At approximately 9:35 AM Japanese Standard Time on June 27th, the JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency) spacecraft Hayabusa 2 successfully rendezvoused with its target, the diamond-shaped asteroid 162173 Ryugu. The spacecraft launched on Decem...
