I was watching the final approach of H2 one or two minutes before arriving at the parking position.

H2 was doing something strange as shown below just before arrival at a velocity of 4cm/s, but the velocity
was 3cm/s even after arrival.

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We're now less than 100 km from the asteroid, and the asteroid's size should be about 100 pixels in Hayabusa 2's camera.

Is another image set expected to be released soon? At less than 200 KM the rotational movie would be quite detailed.

Great movie, Roman!

What an odd-looking little beast. Markedly different from the regular 'battered potato' look of the smaller asteroids, though we're a long way still from seeing enough of them to say what's 'normal' and what's not in that regard.

No, and it was a bit of an off-the-cuff answer, but barring some additional information from the project it's all we have to go on, and it's not implausible given what details of the design we do know. For example, some types of Q-Tech oscillators really do draw 40 mA just for the oscillator, and then for a complete clock there has to be a counter and maybe some other stuff -- the fault protection paper references a "mission clock FPGA".

I also don't fully understand how the scheduling of transmission and reception periods happens if the mission clock is lost. This seemed to introduce a lot of complexity into the attempted recovery process for Spirit. Presumably without the mission clock there's no way for the rover to figure when 11 LST is (in theory it could do with from solar power production but that would vary a lot based on tau, tilt, dust on the panels, etc.); AFAIK this scenario isn't described in the fault protection paper.

Last time I spent hours in copying each slide in google and translating... then the day after they issued the english version.
So I'll wait. :-)

New press conference held yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9nw3bli_Io&t=33s


Presentation in Japanese, lot of veryu interesting info! (Probably English version is coming soon)
http://fanfun.jaxa.jp/jaxatv/files/20180614_hayabusa2.pdf

Are the solar panels able to raise up? I say this when MER traveled thru the space, the solar panels was inside in compact mode before it landed.
During the process of closing (raising) and opening (lowering) solar panels might shake due to the motor vibration or also due to the slope, some
dust will slip down.

It's apparently not as bad over Curiosity's landing site, but the air is noticeably dusty.
Sol 2077 MastCam.

TCM1 was completed 5/22 (yeah!). Press release at: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7138

Can't provide much more data than in the news release but the S/C performance was great and we hit the desired DV well within 1 sigma. Very healthy spacecraft and now we are on a path to Mars! Lots to do in the coming months, but so far a really smooth cruise!

I shared Gerald's PJ08 sequence over on Twitter and the 150dpi 11m x 2m image was actually printed out to 8.5m x 1.3m fabric!

Ireson Hill from the recent navcams.

I have edited the thread title to be about the launch and moved it into the ExoMars subforum.