DESTINY
+ (Demonstration and Experiment of Space Technology for INterplanetary voYage with Phaethon fLyby and dUst Science) is a planned mission to fly by the
Geminids meteor shower parent body
3200 Phaethon, and sample dust originating from the "
rock comet". The spacecraft is being developed by the Japanese space agency
JAXA
The is the Japanese national air and space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003. JAXA is responsible for research, technology development and launch of satellites into o ...
and will demonstrate advanced technologies for future deep space exploration. As of October 2024, DESTINY
+ is planned to be launched in
fiscal year
A fiscal year (also known as a financial year, or sometimes budget year) is used in government accounting, which varies between countries, and for budget purposes. It is also used for financial reporting by businesses and other organizations. La ...
2028.
Overview
, DESTINY
+ is planned to be launched from
Tanegashima Space Center on an
H3 launch vehicle
A launch vehicle is typically a rocket-powered vehicle designed to carry a payload (a crewed spacecraft or satellites) from Earth's surface or lower atmosphere to outer space. The most common form is the ballistic missile-shaped multistage ...
.
A launch vehicle change from
Epsilon S to H3 delayed the launch date from 2025 to
JFY2028, although there's no change of fly-by with
3200 Phaeton in JFY2030.
In previous plan, it was to be launched by Epsilon S into low-Earth orbit in 2025 and to spend 1.5 years raising its orbit with ion engines.
A lunar flyby (at ~) would have accelerated the probe into an interplanetary orbit. During this cruise time it will fly by a few
near Earth object
A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body orbiting the Sun whose closest approach to the Sun (Apsis, perihelion) is less than 1.3 times the Earth–Sun distance (astronomical unit, AU). This definition applies to the object's orb ...
s for study, including the transition body
3200 Phaethon in 2030, as well as measure interplanetary and
interstellar dust.
* DESTINY Dust Analyzer (DDA) — The DESTINY Dust Analyzer (2.7 kg) will be provided by the
German Aerospace Center (DLR),
and is being developed by the
University of Stuttgart.
* Telescopic Camera for Phaethon (TCAP) — The telescopic camera has a mass of 15.8 kg.
* Multiband Camera for Phaethon (MCAP) — The multiband camera has a mass of 3.5 kg and will detect light in 390 nm, 550 nm, 700 nm, 850 nm
wavelength
In physics and mathematics, wavelength or spatial period of a wave or periodic function is the distance over which the wave's shape repeats.
In other words, it is the distance between consecutive corresponding points of the same ''phase (waves ...
s.
See also
*
Lucy
Lucy is an English language, English feminine given name derived from the Latin masculine given name Lucius with the meaning ''as of light'' (''born at dawn or daylight'', maybe also ''shiny'', or ''of light complexion''). Alternative spellings ar ...
– NASA mission to flyby multiple
Jupiter trojans
*
OKEANOS – proposed JAXA Jupiter trojan flyby mission using
solar sail/solar electric propulsion hybrid
*
OSIRIS-REx
OSIRIS-REx was a NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission that visited and collected samples from 101955 Bennu, a C-type asteroid, carbonaceous near-Earth object, near-Earth asteroid. The material, returned in September 2023, is expected ...
– NASA sample-return mission to the carbonaceous asteroid
101955 Bennu
*
Rosetta – ESA mission to comet
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
References
External links
Official project site
{{Future spaceflights
Missions to asteroids
Missions to comets
Japanese space probes
2028 in spaceflight
Proposed space probes