MASCOT—The Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout Onboard the Hayabusa2 Mission
- Ho, Tra-Mi
- Baturkin, Volodymyr
- Grimm, Christian
- Grundmann, Jan Thimo
- Hobbie, Catherin
- Ksenik, Eugen
- Lange, Caroline
- Sasaki, Kaname
- Schlotterer, Markus
- Talapina, Maria
- Termtanasombat, Nawarat
- Wejmo, Elisabet
- Witte, Lars
- Wrasmann, Michael
- Wübbels, Guido
- Rößler, Johannes
- Ziach, Christian
- Findlay, Ross
- Biele, Jens
- Krause, Christian
- Ulamec, Stephan
- Lange, Michael
- Mierheim, Olaf
- Lichtenheldt, Roy
- Maier, Maximilian
- Reill, Josef
- Sedlmayr, Hans-Jürgen
- Bousquet, Pierre
- Bellion, Anthony
- Bompis, Olivier
- Cenac-Morthe, Celine
- Deleuze, Muriel
- Fredon, Stephane
- Jurado, Eric
- Canalias, Elisabet
- Jaumann, Ralf
- Bibring, Jean-Pierre
- Glassmeier, Karl Heinz
- Hercik, David
- Grott, Matthias
- Celotti, Luca
- Cordero, Federico
- Hendrikse, Jeffrey
- Okada, Tatsuaki
Publication date
January 2017
DOI Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLCAbstract
International audienceOn December 3rd, 2014, the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) launched successfully the Hayabusa2 (HY2) spacecraft to its journey to Near Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu. Aboard this spacecraft is a compact landing package, MASCOT (Mobile Asteroid surface SCOuT), which was developed by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in collaboration with the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES). Similar to the famous predecessor mission Hayabusa, Hayabusa2, will also study an asteroid and return samples to Earth. This time, however, the target is a C-type asteroid which is considered to be more primitive than (25143) Itokawa and provide insight into an even earlier stage of our Solar System
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