Hayabusa2 Extended Mission: New Voyage to Rendezvous with a Small Asteroid Rotating with a Short Period
M. Hirabayashi, Y. Mimasu, N. Sakatani, S. Watanabe +40 moreAdv. Space Res. 2021 59 cited
Mission / Small bodies
JAXA · 2003–now · also Hayabusa2, MINERVA-II, MASCOT
JAXA sample-return missions to Itokawa and Ryugu; Hayabusa2 also deployed the MINERVA-II hopping rovers and DLR's MASCOT lander.
Official mission page4 papers naming Hayabusa & Hayabusa2
M. Hirabayashi, Y. Mimasu, N. Sakatani, S. Watanabe +40 moreAdv. Space Res. 2021 59 cited
Jin Beniyama, Thomas G. Müller, Marco Delbo, Eric Pantin +3 moreThe Astronomical Journal 2025 6 cited
Alfredo Escalante, Manuel Sanjurjo-Rivo, Pablo GhiglinoESA International Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems and International Conference on Astrodynamics Tools and Techniques (GNC-ICATT) 2023