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Hayabusa2 is such a cool mission! A veritable space Swiss Army Knife with tantalum bullets, deployable free-floating cameras, four small rovers that hopped arou

Hayabusa2 is such a cool mission! A veritable space Swiss Army Knife with tantalum bullets, deployable free-floating cameras, four small rovers that hopped around the asteroid in super low-G, and a 1.5kg kinetic impactor that blew a crater.

zaroth 7y ago
> and a 1.5kg kinetic impactor TFA called it a cannonball, which is really quite amusing.
isolli 7y ago
You seem knowledgeable: what is a target marker, and how was it used?