Japan's Hayabusa2 capsule lands with asteroid dust samples in Australian desert

Japanese unmanned craft Hayabusa2 returned back to earth after six years in with samples collected from an asteroid. official Twitter handle of Hayabusa2, on December 5, posted hourly updates of craft and its progress. samples which have been collected by craft are expected to contribute on topics like origin of life and formation of universe.

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“Due close proximity to Earth, craft was invisible to ground antenna and communication was interrupted. However, communication with Goldstone station began again at 03:15 JST. This elicited a big applause in control room!”, re a tweet. As per a tweet, at 01:57 JST,  craft has entered Earth's show. Ar tweet revealed that speed of aircraft will tend to increase after 02:30, reaching a maximum of about 11.7 km/s. As craft came closer, members in control room were increased. official Twitter handle also shared ims of control room. 

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Even if mission was successful, work has t come to an end as of w. Hayabusa2 is expected to work on an extended mission of targeting two new asteroids. It will be moving towards its first target, 1998 KY26, which is a ball shaped asteroid, with a diameter of 30 metres. 

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During important mission, Hayabusa2 department wrote that y were connected to DSN and United States. tweet re, “Project Manr Tsuda informed DSN that capsule separation was successful and received ir congratulations”. Desert fireball network me an observation of capsule’s re-entry over South Australia. According to official website, network, along with Kochi University of Techlogy (KUT) and ir partners at Nihon University and Ibaraki University, are deploying ‘a large array of over 50 instruments to capture effects of this exceptional phemen’.

Hayabusa2 reached Ryugu asteroid in June 2018 and descended on asteroid’s surface on February 2019. It n fired a small projectile into ground and scooping surface material into a container. craft n fired an impactor into asteroid from a distance, reby forming a small crater in April 2019. In July 2019, it swooped down again in to grab material ejected by impact. Hayabusa2 finally left its orbit around asteroid in vember 2019 to begin its return journey.

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(Im Credits: @haya2e_jaxa)