China News Service, September 4th. According to Kyodo News, Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced on the 2nd that the Japanese probe Hayabusa 2 will release its equipment at an altitude of 220,000 kilometers when it returns to Earth. Airtight chamber for rock samples collected on the asteroid "Dragon Palace".
The release time is the afternoon of December 5, Japan time, and the airtight capsule will fall into the southern desert of Australia in the early morning of the 6th.
Data map: On November 12, 2019 local time, the Japanese Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Hagi Tian Koichi said at a press conference after the cabinet meeting that the spacecraft research and development agency (JAXA) probe Hayabusa 2 will be moved from the asteroid Ryugu "Depart for the earth.
According to reports, because the body is too close to the earth, it may fall under the influence of the earth's gravity. The Hayabusa 2 will be separated from the airtight capsule at a height equivalent to about half the distance from the moon (about 400,000 kilometers).
The body will leave the earth while filming the airtight cabin entering the atmosphere, striving to rely on the remaining fuel to go to the next asteroid.
In order to accurately target the landing site, Hayabusa 2 needs to adjust its posture significantly before and after the airtight compartment is separated.
Professor Tsuda Yuichi, who led the team, said: "There were more difficult moves when exploring the Dragon Palace, so I have confidence."
The body will adjust its orbit through the main engine before mid-September, and then use the chemical engine to fine-tune the orbit.
It will reach 3.5 million kilometers from the earth in late November, and then accelerate to the height of the release of the airtight capsule.