Hayabusa 2 Leaves Ryugu Asteroid and Returns to Earth
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 returns to Earth, bringing significant samples of the asteroid Ryugu. The spacecraft assigned rovers and landers on…
Hayabusa-2 Mission Has Been Successful: the Crater on Asteroid Ryugu Was Created
The Japanese space agency (JAXA) has sent Hayabusa-2 on a mission, alongside an explosive device. The purpose was to create…
Hayabusa-2 Revealed Significant Information About Asteroid Ryugu
The spacecraft Hayabusa-2 is studying asteroid Ryugu, the space rock located close to the Earth. The spacecraft reached Ryugu many…
Hayabusa-2 Will Make a Crater on Asteroid Ryugu to Get Samples
Japan’s space agency, JAXA, has recently announced that its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft will soon try to drop an explosive on the…
MASCOT Landed on Asteroid Ryugu And It Soon Met Its End
You might believe that MASCOT’s mission failed, but it actually was successful. This week, MASCOT had to land on the…
Update: Japan’s Rovers Successfully Land on Asteroid Ryugu
The two hopping robots that were deployed from Hayabusa2 finally reconnected with the mothership and sent images back to Earth…
Asteroid-Hopping Robots Deployed by Hayabusa2 on Ryugu
Shortly after the Hayabusa2 probe sent of two small rovers to approach and land on the asteroid Ryugu, the team…
Hayabusa-2 Tried to Conduct Its Landing Test, But Its LIDAR Instrument Failed
Today, on September 12th, the Japanese space probe Hayabusa 2 approached only 600 meters above the Ryugu asteroid’s surface for…