PROCYON, Small satellite asteroid flyby launched with Hayabusa 2 Options

[Explorer1]

PROCYON is in the right trajectory too; the initial operations phase has begun.

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Flight_S...ROCYON_999.html

[Weywot]

Can't even edit my post, already a new thread

What I wanted to add:

I somehow miss the LAICA camera system in all PROCYON images and articles. It only shows in some functional block diagrams. Was the "Observation of Geocorona using Lyman Alpha Imaging CAmera" just a proposal, or is it on board the spacecraft? I wonders, since the observation time is said to be 1-2 weeks afer launch in the ppt presentation translated by pandaneko. Thanks btw.

Some other good articles about PROCYON on spaceflight101 (also about ArtSat and Shin'en2) and very extensive one on eoPortal Directory, but all are missing LAICA.

[pandaneko]

Lyman Alpha Imaging CAmera" just a proposal, or is it on board the spacecraft?

I have been away in Taipei, paying my respect to Teresa Teng, an Asiawide famous female singer,
who died at the age of 41. I do not carry IT things (or for that matter even a camera). So,
that is for the delay in my response.

I think the camera is on. That is my gut feeling. I will start translating the gist of what the
control team is saying. By looking at what they have said to date the probe may not yet be
far out enough to look at the earth.

If the camera is installed they will have to be saying something about what our hydrogen extent
is looking like. So far, no mention of it.

I am personally more interested in asteroids. Will this probe be reaching one a lot sooner
than Hayabusa 2? P