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Alignment determination of the Hayabusa2 laser altimeter (LIDAR)

Earth, Planets and Space, 2021
In this study, we determined the alignment of the laser altimeter aboard Hayabusa2 with respect to the spacecraft using in-flight data. Since the laser altimeter data were used to estimate the trajectory of the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, the pointing ...
Hirotomo Noda, Hiroki Senshu, Koji Matsumoto, Noriyuki Namiki, Takahide Mizuno, Seiji Sugita, Shinsuke Abe, Hiroshi Araki, Kazuyoshi Asari, Yuichiro Cho, Atsushi Fujii, Masahiko Hayakawa, Arika Higuchi, Naoyuki Hirata, Naru Hirata, Chikatoshi Honda, Rie Honda, Yoshiaki Ishihara, Shingo Kameda, Shota Kikuchi, Toru Kouyama, Moe Matsuoka, Yuya Mimasu, Tomokatsu Morota, Satoru Nakazawa, Kazunori Ogawa, Naoko Ogawa, Go Ono, Shoko Oshigami, Takanao Saiki, Naoya Sakatani, Sho Sasaki, Hirotaka Sawada, Makoto Shizugami, Hidehiko Suzuki, Tadateru Takahashi, Yuto Takei, Satoshi Tanaka, Eri Tatsumi, Fuyuto Terui, Yuichi Tsuda, Seiitsu Tsuruta, Sei-ichiro Watanabe, Manabu Yamada, Ryuhei Yamada, Tomohiro Yamaguchi, Keiko Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Yokota, Fumi Yoshida, Kent Yoshikawa, Makoto Yoshikawa, Kazuo Yoshioka   +51 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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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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Heating experiments of the Tagish Lake meteorite: Investigation of the effects of short-term heating on chondritic organics [PDF]

, 2019
We present in this study the effects of short-term heating on organics in the Tagish Lake meteorite and how the difference in the heating conditions can modify the organic matter (OM) in a way that complicates the interpretation of a parent body’s ...
,, ,, Chan, Queenie H. S., Nakato, Aiko
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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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Chemical composition of carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu from synchrotron spectroscopy in the mid- to far-infrared of Hayabusa2-returned samples

Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023
Context. The current period is conducive to exploring our Solar System's origins with recent and future space sample return missions, which provide invaluable information from known Solar System asteroids and comets The Hayabusa2 mission of the Japan ...
E. Dartois, Y. Kebukawa, H. Yabuta, J. Mathurin, C. Engrand, J. Duprat, L. Bejach, A. Dazzi, A. Deniset-Besseau, L. Bonal, E. Quirico, C. Sandt, Ferenc Borondics, J. Barosch, G. Cody, Bradley T. De Gregorio, M. Hashiguchi, D. Kilcoyne, M. Komatsu, Z. Martins, M. Matsumoto, G. Montagnac, S. Mostefaoui, L. Nittler, T. Ohigashi, Taiga Okumura, L. Remusat, S. Sandford, M. Shigenaka, R. Stroud, H. Suga, Y. Takahashi, Y. Takeichi, Y. Tamenori, M. Verdier-Paoletti, Shohei Yamashita, Tomoki Nakamura, T. Morita, M. Kikuiri, K. Amano, E. Kagawa, T. Noguchi, H. Naraoka, R. Okazaki, K. Sakamoto, H. Yurimoto, M. Abe, Kanami Kamide, Akiko Miyazaki, A. Nakato, S. Nakazawa, M. Nishimura, T. Okada, T. Saiki, S. Tachibana, S. Tanaka, F. Terui, Y. Tsuda, T. Usui, Sei‐ichiro Watanabe, T. Yada, K. Yogata, M. Yoshikawa   +62 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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