Presentation about the asteroid lander MASCOT as part of the lecture series at the ILA 2016 in Berlin.
Presentation about the asteroid lander MASCOT as part of the lecture series at the ILA 2016 in Berlin.
MASCOT is since December 2014 on its way to the near-Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu (1999 JU3) and in October 2018 will land on the one kilometer diameter asteroid. Later it will hop around and for the first time in space history take measurements at several locations on an asteroid.