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Chemical assessment of the explosive chamber in the projector system of Hayabusa2 for asteroid sampling

Earth, Planets and Space, 2020
We report a chemical assessment of the explosive chamber in the projector system used during the sampling operation of the Hayabusa2 project at the surface of the C-type asteroid Ryugu.
Yoshinori Takano, Keita Yamada, Chisato Okamoto, Hirotaka Sawada, Ryuji Okazaki, Kanako Sakamoto, Yoko Kebukawa, Kento Kiryu, Takazo Shibuya, Motoko Igisu, Hajime Yano, Shogo Tachibana, Hayabusa2 project team   +12 more
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Ryugu Sample Database System (RS-DBS) on the Data Archives and Transmission System (DARTS) by the JAXA curation

Earth, Planets and Space, 2023
The JAXA Astromaterials Science Research Group developed a web-based database system for the Hayabusa2-returned samples from C-type asteroid Ryugu. The Ryugu Sample Database System database (RS-DBS) is designed as an online catalog for users of wide ...
Masahiro Nishimura, Aiko Nakato, Masanao Abe, Kana Nagashima, Hiromichi Soejima, Toru Yada, Kasumi Yogata, Akiko Miyazaki, Kentaro Hatakeda, Miwa Yoshitake, Ayako Iwamae, Cedric Pilorget, Rosario Brunetto, Damien Loizeau, Jean-Pierre Bibring, Lucie Riu, Koki Yumoto, Yuichiro Cho, Yuna Yabe, Seiji Sugita, Motoo Ito, Tatsuaki Okada, Shogo Tachibana, Tomohiro Usui   +23 more
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Thermal Infrared Imaging Experiments of C-Type Asteroid 162173 Ryugu on Hayabusa2 [PDF]

, 2016
The thermal infrared imager TIR onboard Hayabusa2 has been developed to investigate thermo-physical properties of C-type, near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu.
A. Fujiwara, Axel Hagermann, D.A. Paige, F. Vilas, G.J. Consolmagno, H. Hiesinger, H. Hihara, H. Yano, H.H. Kieffer, H.H. Kieffer, Hirohide Demura, Hiroki Senshu, J. Biele, J. Helbert, J. Veverka, Jun Takita, Jörn Helbert, Ken Endo, Kohei Kitazato, M. Delbo, M. Grott, M. Ishiguro, M.P. Golombek, Makoto Taguchi, Naoya Sakatani, O. Groussin, P. Michel, P.R. Christensen, P.R. Christensen, Ryosuke Nakamura, S. Tachibana, S.C. Chase, Satoshi Tanaka, Sunao Hasegawa, T. Fukuhara, T. Okada, T. Okada, T. Spohn, T.-M. Ho, T.G. Müller, Takehiko Arai, Takehiko Wada, Takeshi Imamura, Tatsuaki Okada, Tetsuya Fukuhara, Thomas G. Müller, Tomohiko Sekiguchi, Toru Kouyama, Tsuneo Matsunaga, W.F. Bottke Jr., Y. Tsuda, Yamato Horikawa, Yoshiko Ogawa   +52 more
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Thermography of Asteroid and Future Applications in Space Missions

Applied Sciences, 2020
The Near-Earth Asteroid 162173 Ryugu is a C-type asteroid which preserves information about the ancient Solar System and is considered enriched in volatiles such as water and organics associated with the building blocks of life, and it is a potentially ...
Tatsuaki Okada
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Environmental assessment in the prelaunch phase of Hayabusa2 for safety declaration of returned samples from the asteroid (162173) Ryugu: background monitoring and risk management during development of the sampler system

Earth, Planets and Space, 2022
We report ground-based environmental assessments performed during development of the sampler system until the launch of the Hayabusa2 spacecraft. We conducted static monitoring of potential contaminants to assess the environmental cleanliness during (1 ...
Kanako Sakamoto, Yoshinori Takano, Hirotaka Sawada, Ryuji Okazaki, Takaaki Noguchi, Masayuki Uesugi, Hajime Yano, Toru Yada, Masanao Abe, Shogo Tachibana, The Hayabusa2 Project Team   +10 more
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Special issue “Science of solar system materials examined from Hayabusa and future missions (II)” [PDF]

, 2017
Six years have passed since the first asteroid sample was returned from the S-type near-Earth asteroid 25143 Itokawa by the JAXA’s Hayabusa mission in 2010 (Yada et al. 2014). Considerable progress has been made in the study of surface regolith materials
Binzel, Richard P, Connolly, Harold C, Connolly, Harold C., Ohtsuki, Keiji, Okada, Tatsuaki, Yada, Toru   +5 more
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Heliocentric distance dependence of zodiacal light observed by Hayabusa2#

Earth, Planets and Space, 2023
Zodiacal light (ZL) is sunlight scattered by interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) at optical wavelengths. The spatial distribution of IDPs in the Solar System may hold an important key to understanding the evolution of the Solar System and material ...
Kohji Tsumura, Shuji Matsuura, Kei Sano, Takahiro Iwata, Hajime Yano, Kohei Kitazato, Kohji Takimoto, Manabu Yamada, Tomokatsu Morota, Toru Kouyama, Masahiko Hayakawa, Yasuhiro Yokota, Eri Tatsumi, Moe Matsuoka, Naoya Sakatani, Rie Honda, Shingo Kameda, Hidehiko Suzuki, Yuichiro Cho, Kazuo Yoshioka, Kazunori Ogawa, Kei Shirai, Hirotaka Sawada, Seiji Sugita   +23 more
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Methods and tools for handling, transportation, weighing, and pelletization applied to the initial analysis of volatile components in the Hayabusa2 samples

Earth, Planets and Space, 2022
The Hayabusa2 spacecraft succeeded in sampling and returning materials from the C-type, near-Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu. As part of the Hayabusa2 Initial Analyses, chemical and isotopic compositions of volatile species were measured.
Ryuji Okazaki, Shinji Yamanouchi, Kazuhiko Shimada, Atsushi Baba, Fumio Kitajima, Toru Yada   +5 more
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Variations of the surface characteristics of Ryugu returned samples

Earth, Planets and Space, 2023
Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully collected rock samples from the surface of C-type near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu through two touchdowns and brought them back to Earth in 2020.
Aiko Nakato, Toru Yada, Masahiro Nishimura, Kasumi Yogata, Akiko Miyazaki, Kana Nagashima, Kentaro Hatakeda, Kazuya Kumagai, Yuya Hitomi, Hiromichi Soejima, Jean-Pierre Bibring, Cedric Pilorget, Vincent Hamm, Rosario Brunetto, Lucie Riu, Lionel Lourit, Damien Loizeau, Tania Le Pivert-Jolivet, Guillaume Lequertier, Aurelie Moussi-Soffys, Masanao Abe, Tatsuaki Okada, Tomohiro Usui, Satoru Nakazawa, Takanao Saiki, Satoshi Tanaka, Fuyuto Terui, Makoto Yoshikawa, Sei-ichiro Watanabe, Yuichi Tsuda   +29 more
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The MASCOT Magnetometer [PDF]

, 2015
The Mobile Asteroid Scout (MASCOT) is a small lander on board the Hayabusa2 mission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to the asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Among the instruments on MASCOT is a fluxgate magnetometer, the MASCOT Magnetometer (MasMag).
Auster, Hans-Ulrich, Blum, Jürgen, Fornaçon, Karl-Heinz, Fujimoto, Masaki, Gebauer, Kathrin, Glassmeier, Karl-Heinz, Güttler, Carsten, Herčík, David, Hillenmaier, Olaf, Hördt, Andreas, Liebert, Evelyn, Matsuoka, Ayako, Nomura, Reiko, Richter, Ingo, Stoll, Bernd, Weiss, Benjamin P   +15 more
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