JAXA: "Hayabusa 2" Target Marker Principle: Developing Child's beanbag Tips

JAXA: “Hayabusa 2” Target Marker Principle: Developing Child’s beanbag Tips

JAXA spacecraft: “Hayabusa 2”

made a successful landing twice on the asteroid Ryukyu and was able to collect underground rock fragments.

Behind the successful landing of “Hayabusa 2” is the ‘presence of the’ target marker ‘.

Principle of target marker;

An engineer from Yamagata City, Masahiro Ogasawara (64) has developed it.

The marker, which does not bounce when dropped from high, was conceived from the beanbag that the daughter played.

Lead in development: Mr. Ogasawara

We held a conference on markers that would stop when falling to the asteroid.

My mother living in Yamagata made an old kimono for my granddaughter.

When I dropped the beanbag on the floor, it stopped moving.

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