2026-06-27 15:14 UTC
2026-06-27 15:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-06-20)
WHERE IS HAYABUSA2♯?
- Barycentric speed: 35.61 km/s (-0.44 km/s)
- Torifune flyby in: 7 days
🪨 Relative to Torifune
- Distance (km): 3,596,589.90 km (-3,438,873.40 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.02 (-0.02)
- Light travel time: 0 min 12.00 s (-11.47 s)
🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 102,873,508.99 km (-7,698,929.88 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.69 (-0.05)
- Light travel time: 5 min 43.16 s (-25.68 s)
#Hayabusa2 #Torifune
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@wawn@mastodon.social 2026-06-27 15:18
With just one week until the flyby, let's take a look at the spacecraft's avionics. Hayabusa2 is a compact box measuring 1 m wide, 1.6 m long, and 1.25 m tall, though its span reaches 6 m with the solar arrays deployed. Altogether, this space fridge weighs 609 kg.