Hayabusa2
OrbiterIon-engine spacecraft that touched down on Ryugu twice to collect samples and deployed several small landers.
- Launch mass
- 554 kg
- Dry mass
- 446 kg
- Size
- 1.6 m × 1 m, span 6 m
- Power
- Solar
- Built by
- NEC
- Designator
- 2014-076A
Image: DLR German Aerospace Center · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Launched
- 3 Dec 201404:22:04 UTC
- Active for
- 11 years 11 months
- Destinations
- Ryugu
A JAXA mission that collected samples from the asteroid Ryugu and returned them to Earth in December 2020. The spacecraft is now on an extended mission to other asteroids.
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Spacecraft
Active
MASCOT
LanderShoebox-sized lander from the German and French space agencies, which hopped across Ryugu's surface for about 17 hours on battery power.
- Launch mass
- 9.8 kg
- Size
- 0.2 m × 0.3 m, span 0.3 m
- Power
- Battery
- Built by
- German Aerospace Center (DLR)
- Last contact
- 3 Oct 2018
Mission details from hayabusa2.jaxa.jp.