Hayabusa2
JAXA · launched 2014
Returned Ryugu samples in 2020; extended to asteroid 1998 KY26 for 2031.
Right now · as of
Interplanetary cruise
78.5 million km from Earth; a signal takes 4 min 22 s
158 million km (1.06 AU) from the Sun, moving at 26.7 km/s relative to the Sun
Open in 3DThe flight
December 3, 2014
Launched on H-IIA 202 from Tanegashima LA-Y1
December 3, 2015
Flies past Earth, 9,828 km away
December 5, 2020
Flies past Earth, 6,716 km away
From the trajectory NASA JPL Horizons publishes for it.
Hayabusa2
Japanese space mission to asteroid Ryugu
Hayabusa2 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.
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Facts
- What it is
- Space probe
- Agency
- JAXA
- Launched
- December 3, 2014
- Rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Launch site
- Tanegashima LA-Y1
- International designator
- 2014-076K