Hayabusa-2 successful landing on the asteroid surface of Ryugu

mytechcrunch (62)in #science • 6 years ago

The successful landing on the asteroid Ryugu near the Earth, photography and hop move are also successful.

As planned on September 21, the spacecraft [MINERVA - II 1] was dropped from the asteroid explorer Hayabusa-2, and two rovers " Rover 1A " and " Rover 1B ".

According to JAXA, neither of them is sending photos and various data to the mothership "Hayabusa-2" without any problems.

As we reported last time, the rovers autonomously jumped by the reaction of the rotation by the internal motor, staying for about 15 minutes in one hop and moving up to 15m in the horizontal direction. When JAXA analyzed the photo, it turned out that it was shooting while moving properly. This movement seems to be in good condition.

It became the world's first artificial thing that moved and explored on the asteroid surface. Besides, it was also a great achievement to make two machines operate at the same time.

Hayabusa-2 Project members 'members' comments are pleased that everyone's research has been successful.

Since the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft was shown, it was nice to be able to capture the image as it was loaded in the robot.

This CG animation video very clearly, also want to expect this success.