It’s been a while since I looked at the successful deployment and mission of the German MASCOT lander, which was deployed on the asteroid Ryugu on October 2nd. Powered by batteries, it was designed to do a few hops on the surface, take photos, do some scans, and last only about 12 hours which, at […]
The next stage in the Hayabusa2 mission occurred this morning with the release and successful landing of the MASCOT rover on the asteroid Ryugu. This comes as a part of the same mission which brought us the first photos from the surface of an asteroid and will culminate with a sample return from Ryugu in […]
Last week Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe successfully delivered the first of 3 sets of rovers to the surface of the asteroid Ryugu, proving us the first photos from the surface of an asteroid. Hayabusa 2 is one of those many current space mission which I’ve simply never covered. It flew “under the radar” so to […]