Asteroid probe "Hayabusa 2" capsule separation 12 hours before returning 18:27 on September 2
The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 continues to fly toward the earth to return the capsule that seems to contain asteroid sand, but the capsule is separated about 12 hours before returning 220,000 from the earth. JAXA = Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has published detailed procedures such as performing at a position of about a kilometer.
Japan's Hayabusa2, which carried out the exploration of the asteroid "Ryugu", dropped a capsule that seems to contain sand on the surface to the earth on December 6th, and following the first unit, a sample from the asteroid. We are aiming for sample return to take home.
The JAXA team held an interview and announced detailed procedures for returning the Hayabusa2 capsule.
As a result, Hayabusa2 was adjusted to orbit around Australia this November 25th, and it was capsuled at a position about 220,000 kilometers from the earth between 2:00pm and 3:00pm Japan time on December 5th. Isolate
And about 12 hours later, the capsules are planned to fall in the desert area of Southern Australia from 2 am to 3 am on 6 December.
After exploring the capsule, the spacecraft will inject the engine again and continue to fly to another asteroid, and take a picture of the capsule as it enters the atmosphere.
JAXA project manager Yuichi Tsuda said, "I'm going to be most nervous from the morning of December 5th to the evening of December 5th, when there is work on separation and subsequent engine injection of the probe."