Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Hayabusa-2
H-IIA 202
SUCCESS
Success
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 · 04:22 UTC
Mission
/01Hayabusa2 (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
/02Rocket
H-IIA 202
Variant: 202
Launch Pad
Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1
Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
30.401° N, 130.978° E
33
Pad Launches
61
Location Launches
23
Agency Launches
79
Orbital This Year