Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Hayabusa-2

H-IIA 202

SUCCESS
Success

Wednesday, December 3, 2014 · 04:22 UTC

Mission

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Hayabusa2 (Japanese: はやぶさ2, "Peregrine falcon 2") is an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese space agency, JAXA. It follows on from the Hayabusa mission which returned asteroid samples in June 2010. Hayabusa2 carries multiple science payloads for remote sensing, sampling, and four small rovers that investigated the asteroid surface to inform the environmental and geological context of the samples collected.

Mission Type

Robotic Exploration

Orbit

Heliocentric N/A (Helio-N/A)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Successful

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

H-IIA 202

Variant: 202

Launch Pad

Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1

Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

30.401° N, 130.978° E

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Pad Launches

61

Location Launches

23

Agency Launches

79

Orbital This Year

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