| Presentation | 2013-04-26 Surface exploration robotics system of MINERVA-II onboard Hayabusa-2 asteroid mission Tetsuo YOSHIMITSU, Takashi KUBOTA, Atsushi TOMIKI, Tadashi ADACHI, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Japan has decided to launch the second sample return mission "Hayabusa-2" to the Near Earth asteroid 1999JU3 in 2014. The predecessor spacecraft "Hayabusa" made a great success when it returned to the Earth in June 2010 with a capsule containing some particles obtained around the S-type asteroid "Itokawa." The authors installed a tiny hopping rover called "MINERVA" into Hayabusa spacecraft. The rover was deployed at the vicinity of the asteroid in 2005, but failed to make a surface exploration since the human operator on the ground made a critical failure in deploying the rover. The second spacecraft also involves a plan to have a tiny rover system which will make a surface exploration over the 1km-sized asteroid. With the past experience in developing a rover, the authors are again working to install some rover packages to Hayabusa-2. The total concept is the same but this time multiple rovers are considered. Many of the aspects of the mother spacecraft come from the heritage of the previous explorer which was build using the technologies more than ten years ago. But the rover system is a completely brand-new one, based on the lessons learned from the previous rover system. Since the target asteroid parameters are different from the previous target, the rover design has to be made from the beginning. We also face to the another technically challenging matters arisen from the point of the distance from the Sun as well as the surface cruel temperature of low-albedo body. This paper describes the system configuration of the rover system currently designed and developed for the launch in 2014. |
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| Keyword(in English) | asteroid rover / small body exploration |
| Paper # | SANE2013-7 |
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| Conference Date | 2013/4/18(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | Surface exploration robotics system of MINERVA-II onboard Hayabusa-2 asteroid mission |
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| Keyword(1) | asteroid rover |
| Keyword(2) | small body exploration |
| 1st Author's Name | Tetsuo YOSHIMITSU |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Takashi KUBOTA |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
| 3rd Author's Name | Atsushi TOMIKI |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
| 4th Author's Name | Tadashi ADACHI |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | SECCIA Techno Co.,Ltd |
| Date | 2013-04-26 |
| Paper # | SANE2013-7 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.113 |
| Number (no) | 16 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 5 |
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