JAXA project team “Hayabusa 2 return mission compilation” July 14th 17:43
The Japanese spacecraft “Hayabusa 2”, which successfully landed on the asteroid twice, will return the capsule to Earth on December 6th, and the JAXA = Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency team will hold a press conference. "I want to make it successful because the return is the culmination of missions," he said with enthusiasm.
The Japanese spacecraft “Hayabusa 2” landed twice on the asteroid “Ryugu” and challenged to collect surface sand and rock fragments, then left “Ryugu” in November last year and flew toward the earth. Is continuing.
The JAXA project team held a press conference online on the 14th, and Hayabusa2 is currently heading to the earth at a speed of about 24 kilometers per second at a position of 92 million kilometers from the earth, and as a result of a discussion with stakeholders, He explained that the day to drop capsules that seemed to contain asteroid sand etc. into the Australian desert was decided on December 6th.
"Hayabusa 2" means that from October this year, we will stop using the main engine and enter the stage of precisely controlling the trajectory using the attitude control engine.
The separated capsules are expected to plunge into the atmosphere at a speed of about 12 km/s and fall while shining.
The recovered capsules were brought to the JAXA Institute for Space Science in Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture to be opened, and the sand and other materials that seemed to be inside were then distributed to researchers and were there any organic matter related to life? Etc. are to be analyzed.
JAXA's Yuichi Tsuda project manager said, "There is a limit to the number of personnel dispatched to the site due to the new coronavirus, but it is a culmination of the mission, so I want to make it a success," he said with enthusiasm.