Signing Hayabusa 2 mission agreement
Signing Hayabusa 2 mission agreement
DLR Executive Board Chairman Johann-Dietrich Wörner (right), and Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of the French space agency CNES, signing at the Paris Air Show, a cooperation agreement for the Hayabusa 2 mission. During the mission in 2018 the landing craft MASCOT (Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout), developed by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), performing manually a landing on an asteroid for the first time and allow for data acquisition at various points of this kind of celestial body. The French space agency CNES will contribute one of the four instruments on board the landing craft – the spectrometer MicrOmega.
