hot rover on asteroid action!

[Anonymous No.10017249]

Why aren't we talking about this? Hayabusa2 has started the process of deploying the MINERVA-II 1 rover on asteroid Ryugu. It will be the first time a rover has landed on an asteroid if it works. The original Hayabusa failed at this, so hopefully this will be better. Right now Hayabusa is descending toward the asteroid.
Here's the current(tentative) schedule:
http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20180920e/
And updates seem to be happening through twitter:
https://twitter.com/haya2e_jaxa

[Anonymous No.10017253]

>>10017249
Pic related is the deployment plan. Here's the image stream from Hayabusa2:
http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/galleries/onc/nav20180920/

[Anonymous No.10017339]

Not American literally don't give a shit.

[Anonymous No.10017359]

>>10017249
they basically do what europeans did a few years ago on comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philae_(spacecraft)

[Anonymous No.10017393]

>>10017359

And the us did this 16 years ago.

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98874&page=1

Do journalist not do research anymore?

[Anonymous No.10017528]

>>10017393
they get paid for clickbait, not research

[Anonymous No.10017733]

>>10017249
>asteroid Ryugu
>approximately 1 kilometer in diameter

I hope they are thinking of it like this, because it is more accurate.

[Anonymous No.10017738]

Status update, it's still moving down. It slowed down to a blisteringly fast 10 cm/s second. Should be close to 4 km away from the surface.
>>10017393
>>10017359
Not with a rover. This thing will actually be able to move around on the asteroid. The Eros pictures were pretty shit because the spacecraft could only focus on far away stuff, this should provide better pictures.
>>10017733
It's all relative anon. This is also why they are moving so slow. Gravity is low but not zero. Gravity is 1/80,000 of a g.

[Anonymous No.10017741]

>>10017738
>It's all relative anon.

Not to the human mind it isn't. If you design your device using >>10017249 instead of >>10017733 you may lull yourself into some pretty glaring mistakes. Worse has been done in the past with all this shit which really makes me wonder.

[Anonymous No.10017769]

>>10017741
Both of those are renders which were produced years after the device was designed. And again, there is in fact down here because there is gravity. The surface gravity is an order of magnitude more than that of the ISS. Also as far as lulling yourself into glaring mistakes, I must say git gud.

[Anonymous No.10017783]

>>10017769
I'm not the one who needs to, "get gud."

[Anonymous No.10018291]

It's down to about 1.5 km in altitude.

[Anonymous No.10018312]

Good luck Hayabusa chan!

[Anonymous No.10018438]

[MINERVA-II1] September 21 at 11:00 JST: The altitude of the spacecraft is now at 900m. This image was captured at 10:30 JST. The shadow of Hayabusa2 is now visible! (Real-time display of the navigation images has stopped: please wait for recovery).

Personally I ain't seeing the shadow

>>10018312
that's hayabusa-kun to you
https://twitter.com/haya2kun

[Anonymous No.10018445]

>>10018438
Look for the dot inside the bright spot, thats the shadow.

When you look at the thumbnail, you'll notice that the left side of the asteroid is noticeably brighter than the right. If you zoom in and look at the bright side of the asteroid, you'll notice a dark spot directly in the center of the bright area; thats the shadow.

[Anonymous No.10018495]

>>10018445
you can barely fucking see it. 600 hundred meters now lads.

[Anonymous No.10018530]

500 meters. Now here's a shadow

[Anonymous No.10018543]

>>10018530
Ah shit! Its habbenin!

[Anonymous No.10018568]

>>10018530
[MINERVA-II1] The shadow of Hayabusa2 on the surface of Ryugu is gradually becoming stronger. The altitude of the spacecraft is now down to about 400m. The image was captured at universal time, UTC 2018-09-21 03:05

yeah what they said about that image.

[Anonymous No.10018574]

I wish that was me

[Anonymous No.10018595]

[MINERVA-II1] Hayabusa2 and the operation team are working hard! Please think good thoughts!

[MINERVA-II1] September 21 at 12:58 JST. The altitude of the spacecraft is confirmed to be about 200m.

So yeah things are going well, have a badly processed image. Deployment process might have already been started, we'll know in a bit after the light lag. Also make sure to think happy thoughts

[Anonymous No.10018605]

>>10018595
Thank you anon i really really appreciate you

[Anonymous No.10018615]

Oh yeah we're close now. As you can see from this partially complete image that was delivered from across the solar system at speeds lower than dial up internet.

[Anonymous No.10018619]

[MINERVA-II1] September 21 at 13:17 JST. The altitude display for the spacecraft has finally dropped to about 100m. In the control room, you can hear the sound of deep breaths around the room.

also check out the big asteroid in the navcam view

[Anonymous No.10018620]

Shadow looks like a TIE fighter

[Anonymous No.10018622]

>>10018620
yup

[Anonymous No.10018629]

>>10018595
>Please think good thoughts!

that was cute

[Anonymous No.10018639]

>>10018629
keep thinking them! We're not going to find out if deployment was successful for about 20 minutes or so. And then there's landing...

[Anonymous No.10018664]

gotta love not even dial-up space internet

[Anonymous No.10018667]

>>10018664
These images are sort of confusing. Are they showing the full face of the asteroid with a super wide angle lens, or is it really that small?

[Anonymous No.10018680]

>Heeeeeeere weeeeee cooooome!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.10018682]

>>10018680

[Anonymous No.10018683]

SEPERATION CONFIRMED!

[Anonymous No.10018688]

is there some livestream?

[Anonymous No.10018689]

>>10018667
It is very small

[Anonymous No.10018694]

>>10018667
wide angle lense and the asteroid is less than 1 km in diameter
>>10018688
nope. Just gonna have to live with whatever jaxa says and images streamed at a whopping 8912 bits/second

[Anonymous No.10018697]

>>10018694
>nope. Just gonna have to live with whatever jaxa says and images streamed at a whopping 8912 bits/second
wow, pretty lame probe

even the eurofagss who fucked up their landing on that comet had a livestream

[Anonymous No.10018699]

>>10018697
They're doing their best man.

[Anonymous No.10018700]

>>10018697
>focus on actual mission instead of extraneous visuals and transmission power
>lame
I guess there is an argument that more public-focused mission design is better but still

[Anonymous No.10018705]

>>10018697
and some dude got in trouble for wearing a shirt. They're doing a live stream in two hours though: http://fanfun.jaxa.jp/jaxatv/detail/12886.html
Presumably some press release shit.

Now what do you do after you come? Well you go. We should be expecting it to go pretty soon.

[Anonymous No.10018707]

>>10018705
>and some dude got in trouble for wearing a shirt.
Waiting for someone from JAXA to do an interview wearing this.

[Anonymous No.10018710]

>>10018700
true.

i work on a "big science" experiment and i find that every time some group of fucktard tourists or news reports comes into the control room, it's a huge fucking annoyance. and my experiment will literally SHUT DOWN when it absolutely COULD KEEP RUNNING just because some big politico or rich person wants to look at it and take pictures

so fine, no livestream, understandable

at the same time, i would be personally way more excited if 4chan weren't the #1 best source for following this awesome mission

[Anonymous No.10018715]

and now it's hauling ass out of there!
http://haya2now.jp/en.html

[Anonymous No.10018721]

>>10018700
>>10018710
could also be a japanese culture thing
>>10018707
the nail that sticks out gets hammered down.

[Anonymous No.10018727]

And we've got a bit rate drop cause Hayabusa tilted around and took some picture to see where the rover landed.

[Anonymous No.10018747]

>>Detachment of MINERVA - Ⅱ 1, complete! I'm a bit lonely, but because I can communicate, it's always the same. From now on you will send us photos, temperature and various data of Ryugu gently. Take me to Ryuguu Expedition! ~haya2kun

Please wait warmly data is downloading. Also here's a pic that indicates that indeed hayabusa2 did indeed haul ass out of there.

[Anonymous No.10018763]

stop poking around ryugu people uguuu~~ >_<

[Anonymous No.10018817]

>>10018747
>gently
>warmly

What do they mean when they say stuff like this? I see it a lot on aliexpress stuff too.

[Anonymous No.10018820]

>>10018817
>>gently
that came out of the google translate
>>warmly
lurk moar.

[Anonymous No.10018825]

>>10018820
Don't tell me to lurk moar I've seen it tons of times. I just don't know what point they're trying to get across when they say warmly.

[Anonymous No.10018838]

>>【MINERVA - Ⅱ 1】 September 21 15: 30 JST: We confirmed communication with MINERVA - II - 1. We have confirmed the rise of the spacecraft after MINERVA-II-1 emission. The current altitude is about 2.5 km. The state of the spacecraft is normal. The closest altitude of the spacecraft was about 55 m and the separation time was 13:05 at the probe time.

so yeah, even if they bowled the rovers into pits like rosetta at least we got something

[Anonymous No.10018841]

>>10018825
it's just a euphemism for "please wait patiently" in japanese.

[Anonymous No.10018846]

>>10018841
Thank you

[Anonymous No.10018856]

welp, so turns out that JAXA can't receive on the KA-band which is why the bit rate is so low. Which means we have to wait till the big dish in Canberra can receive it. Interestingly this stream starts at about the same time the big dish starts listening too it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrwMFbzl-Fs

[Anonymous No.10018875]

>>10018856
aaaand the stream's up.

[Anonymous No.10018893]

>>10018875
aaaaannd canberra has signal in the (slow) X-band. Fuck we're gonna have to wait for pics. From the press conference we probably have touchdown. Solar cell voltages dropped at the exact moment the probes were expected to impact, indicating they were covered by the ground.

[Anonymous No.10019303]

>>10018763
>not wanting to bully Ryugu by poking its chubby cheeks

[Anonymous No.10020359]

>>10017359
>they basically do what europeans did a few years ago on comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko
Fuck it up?

[Anonymous No.10020363]

>>10017783
>failed because all of the solar panels had to deploy before the antenna could deploy
>if this point of failure in the design had been addressed Beagle 2 would have functioned fine on reduced power

fucking ESA always fucks it up

[Anonymous No.10020379]

>>10020363
They also almost managed to fuck up the Titan lander because the radio frequency it was broadcasting on wasn't right, they had to delay the probe release until the Doppler shift from it being pulled into titan's gravity would be enough to bring the frequency back in correctly.

[Anonymous No.10021016]

So an update, communication stopped from the rovers when they probably hit the asteroid and rotated out of view of Hayabusa2. They're supposed to be downloading images from the rovers now. If there are actually images to download

[Anonymous No.10021737]

here we are lads

[Anonymous No.10021740]

We are sorry we have kept you waiting! MINERVA-II1 consists of two rovers, 1a & 1b. Both rovers are confirmed to have landed on the surface of Ryugu. They are in good condition and have transmitted photos & data. We also confirmed they are moving on the surface.

TOUCHDOWN!!!! The part about them moving makes me wonder if they drifting over the surface

[Anonymous No.10021741]

>>10021737

[Anonymous No.10021745]

>>10021741

[Anonymous No.10021746]

>>10021741
Yikes a ghost!

[Anonymous No.10022142]

Good week for Japan space! also having a successful H-IIB launch this morning of an HTV cargo flight to the ISS.

[Anonymous No.10022291]

>>10017359
Us yuropoors failed though, and with a lander, not two rovers. Godspeed the japs.

[Anonymous No.10022440]

>>10021740
Oh fuck the rovers they deployed are FULLY autonomous. There is no human control at all, they explore the asteroid all on their own. This means these rovers are out of control! They're probably hopping around right now
>>10022291
It's not over yet, the main science lander on Hayabusa2 was made by DLR

[Anonymous No.10023244]

dammit, I can't wait for more images from the rover.