IAC-15,A3,4,5 ASTEROID SURFACE EXPLORATION ROVERS DEVELOPED FOR HAYABUSA2 MISSION

摘要

The authors have installed a rover package to the asteroid sample return mission "Hayabusa2", which was launched on 5 December 2014 heading for the C-type Near Earth asteroid 1999JU3. The package consists of two rover containers, a relay module and an antenna to communicate with the rovers. Three rovers are included in the two containers. Two of them installed together in one container are the responsibilities of the authors. Another one in the secondary container came from the domestic university members. All the rovers were developed without the official budget from the mission to seek for the technology-driven challenges on the surface of the target asteroid. This paper summarizes the capabilities of the two rovers developed by the authors.