It's only 100 days before we return to Earth! 🛰🌏 Hayabusa2 is now 50 million km from Earth and it takes ~5.5 mins (round trip) to communicate with the spacecraft. We will continue to modify the trajectory (TCM) to deliver the capsule safely to Woomera, Australia on December 6! pic.twitter.com/x842YUH3iK

— HAYABUSA2@JAXA (@haya2e_jaxa) August 28, 2020

At the Hayabusa2 press conference today (Sept. 2), we released a CG video of the Earth return! There is no narration, but you can see the trajectory corrections (TCM) for the spacecraft, attitude control and how the capsule lands. Please take a look here: https://t.co/Lem2QJBrJi pic.twitter.com/VZHFeT9dGg

— HAYABUSA2@JAXA (@haya2e_jaxa) September 2, 2020

The Hayabusa2 project is considering an extended mission after returning the capsule to Earth. Plans have been narrowed down to 2 possible candidate targets: asteroids 2001 AV43 or 1998 KY26. Both are small & fast spinning objects, which is a type that has not yet been explored. pic.twitter.com/OYpQAyy7ob

— HAYABUSA2@JAXA (@haya2e_jaxa) July 22, 2020