The ESA-led Hera spacecraft successfully launches, heading to the binary asteroid Didymos and Dimorphos 🚀. The mission carries the thermal infrared imager developed at JAXA. Read more 🔗:
What's inside the Hera spacecraft? 🛰️ Inside the 1.6m cube box, there are many kinds of instruments developed through international cooperation. TIRI was developed in international collaboration with Belgium.
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🌎🚀[
#Hera
launch live talk event!]🚀🌎
A special talk show will be broadcast tonight at 22:30 JST before the launch of the
#HeraMission
! (Discussion will be in Japanese). The event may be postponed depending on local weather conditions.
Watch here 📺:
Targeting Monday, October 7 for Falcon 9’s launch of the
@esa
Hera mission to orbit from Florida. Teams continue to monitor weather, which is currently 15% favorable →
[Research] Analysis of magnesium isotopes in asteroid Ryugu is revealing how the asteroid's minerals originally crystallised, helping probe conditions on ancient Earth. Read more 🔗:
WOW, it only took 30 minutes for Mio to collect enough data during our third
#MercuryFlyby
to map out the dynamic features of Mercury’s magnetic environment.
Great job
@JAXA_MMO
! 👏🤩
Can’t wait for our dual observations once in orbit!
Full story 👉
[Research] 🌟A glimpse of Mercury's magnetosphere!🌟
~ Mercury's plasma environment revealed during BepiColombo's third flyby🛰 ~
✨The findings from the June 2023 Mercury flyby, captured by the "Mio" spacecraft
@JAXA_MMO
, have been published!📖🎉
"Science drives everything!" The JAXA and NASA space science collaboration: an interview with Associate Administrator for
@NASA
's Science Mission Directorate, Dr Nicola Fox. 🔗:
JAXA Sagamihara Campus Special Open Day will be on November 2 - 3, 2024 both on-site & online! If you would like to visit us, please reserve a spot from the website below (no charge). A few of our events also require registration. We can't wait to see you!
To preserve the cleanroom environment, only certain items are allowed inside. Pencils & regular paper produce fine dust, so tablets & special shed-free “clean paper” are used to record our work 📝 The videos we share are from curators wearing these head cameras (2nd from right)!
Asteroid 2001 CC21, which Hayabusa2 will flyby in 2026, has been named "Torifune"! The name was selected from everyone's suggestions during the "Asteroid 2001 CC21 Naming Campaign" with assistance from the Children's Selection Committee! Read more 🔗:
[Research] Early science results from the XRISM X-ray telescope (
@XRISM_jp
) reveal the temperature of plasma in supernova remnants and the structure around supermassive black holes. Read more 🔗:
#JAXA
#NASA
#ESA
#SRON
The Hera launch kit is now available! JAXA's Thermal InfraRed Imager TIRI📸 is mounted at a good location(B in the figure) on the top deck of the spacecraft.✨
How do we weigh & photograph the
#OSIRISREx
#Bennu
sample?
🪟 Vacuum tweezers (which lift via air suction) safely remove the container window. ⚖️ Our new scales weigh even more accurately than for Hayabusa2. 🔬 The sample height can be measured automatically by photomicroscopy.
[
#ISASGate
] A new image restoration technique has enhanced the image of the Crab Nebula observed with ASTRO-H’s hard X-ray telescope. Read more 🔗:
#JAXA