Asteroid Explorer Hayabusa2
Overview
Many members from the University of Aizu, in particular faculty members from CAIST/ARC-Space, have been involved with Hayabusa 2, the asteroid explorer launched by JAXA in 2014. Our University's members have been conducting research in connection with this project in anticipation of Hayabusa 2's arrival at the asteroid 162173 Ryugu in 2018, to be followed by its return to Earth in 2020. Specifically teams at the University have been engaged in developing observation instruments, which include the near infrared spectrometer installed on Hayabusa 2, and in developing analytic software that will model the shape of the asteroid based on data captured by the probe's observation instruments.
JAXA Hayabusa 2 project website
*Material from JAXA's digital archives has been used for the banner images, etc.
Professors
- DEMURA Hirohide Professor, Director of Aizu Research Center for Space Informatics DEMURA Hirohide
- HIRATA Naru Senior Associate Professor, Deputy Director of Information Systems and Technology Center HIRATA Naru
- OGAWA Yoshiko Senior Associate Professor, Deputy Director of Aizu Research Center for Space Informatics OGAWA Yoshiko
- HONDA Chikatoshi Associate Professor HONDA Chikatoshi
- KITAZATO Kohei Associate Professor KITAZATO Kohei
- TAKAHASHI Shigeo Professor TAKAHASHI Shigeo
- YAGUCHI Yuichi Senior Associate Professor YAGUCHI Yuichi
- NARUSE Keitaro Professor, Division of Information Systems Head of the Division NARUSE Keitaro
Laboratories and Groups
- Laboratories
- Aizu Research Cluster for Space Science (ARC-Space)
- Groups
- Pattern Processing Laboratory