H-IIA 202 | Hayabusa-2

Mission Details

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.

Type

Robotic Exploration

Orbit

Heliocentric N/A

Launch Site

Pad

Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1

Location

Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

Country

🇯🇵 JPN