Planetary Science
HAYABUSA 2
Extended missionPlanetary ScienceHeliocentric
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. 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 1998 KY26.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 3, 2014 at 04:22 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-IIA 202 →
- Operator
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Mission
- Hayabusa-2
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Heliocentric
- Reference body
- Heliocentric
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 600 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2014-076A
- NORAD catalog №
- 40319
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 4.4212 m²
- Status
- Extended mission