Mission: Hayabusa 2 |
Mission: Hayabusa 2 |
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JAXA wants to continue with Hayabusa 2. However there is/was a huge fight about the budget. Main problem was the budget for the launch vehicle. 2 months ago or so there was a report which said, that JAXA had to find another launch vehicle or the project gets cancelled. Now the Italian space agency played saviour and overed the VEGA. So finally we might see another Hayabusa in 2011.
It was mentioned here: http://www.jspec.jaxa.jp/080110Final_IPEWG-ProgramBook.pdf |
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You can now submit your name on The Planetary Society's website:
http://www.planetary.org/get-involved/messages/hayabusa-2/ -------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
http://human-spaceflight.blogspot.com |
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I have checked with JAXA HP in English, but I could not find immediately if what follows is actually carried there. So, just in case, what follows is from Nihon Keizai Shimbun dated 23 April.
"JAXA are inviting 2 piggy-back interplanetary space probes: JAXA announced on 23 April that they will invite 2 piggy-backs to be launched with Hayabusa 2 on their H2A rocket. Invitation period is by the end of May and selection will be made at the end of June. 2 space probes of each less than 50 kg are invited. Hayabusa 2 itself will weigh 600 kg." This makes me think and wonder as follows. 1. Can anybody make proposals so quickly? 2. This must be just powdering operation and the infomation has been circulating within intimate circles, both domestic and intrernational, for a long time. P |
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1. Can anybody make proposals so quickly? I honestly don't think so, just a proposal can take up to a year to get a heads up. Then they would have to build it. Even if some agency or university were sitting on one suitable unlaunched craft/probe, they would have to practically carry it out the door directly for intergation and testing. So it sound like a nice offer, though one without actual candidates, now that delays have created a vacant spot - perhaps even two. |
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