Hayabusa2 in 3D: live position and trajectory

Launched in 2014, sampled asteroid Ryugu and returned the capsule to Earth in 2020.The real position of Hayabusa2 is shown, from the trajectory computed by NASA JPL Horizons. The view opens on Hayabusa2; you can travel in time, follow its route and compare it with the planets.

Mass

600 kg¹

Launch date

December 3, 2014¹

Launch vehicle

H-2A¹

Launch site

Tanegashima, Japan¹

Trajectory: JPL Horizons, precomputed from December 5, 2014 to November 24, 2026.Instruments

LIght Detection And Ranging (LIDAR)
urn:jaxa:darts:context:instrument:hyb2.lidar

Near InfraRed Spectrometer (NIRS3)
urn:jaxa:darts:context:instrument:hyb2.nirs3

Optical Navigation Camera (ONC)
urn:jaxa:darts:context:instrument:hyb2.onc

Small Carry-on Impactor (SCI)
urn:jaxa:darts:context:instrument:hyb2.sci

Small Monitor Camera (CAM-H)
urn:jaxa:darts:context:instrument:hyb2.cam-h

Thermal InfraRed Imager (TIR)
urn:jaxa:darts:context:instrument:hyb2.tir

Investigations it appears in

Hayabusa2 Asteroid Sample Return Mission

What the PDS archive declares this spacecraft carries, read on September 30, 2026. Each name is the one the archive publishes, and the identifier below it is its citation.Sources

NASA NSSDCA, Master Catalog. read 2026-09-20. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/

3D Solar System

Galaxy

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Display settings

In the scene

A column header sets the whole column, a group row its group, a row one object. Spacecraft and interstellar objects start hidden.

What the scene shows, object by object
Object	Label	Object	Orbit

Asteroid and comet field

Drawn in Exploration mode, one dot per known orbit.

Rendering

Accessibility and units

Offline use

Download every ephemeris file so the app can place the bodies at any date without a network. Nothing is downloaded until you ask.

Navigation

Drag orbit the view
Scroll · pinch zoom in / out
Click a body or its label to travel to it
Educ · Explo compressed overview vs true-scale voyage
Clock · date scroll to time-travel, tap to pick

Textures: USGS Astrogeology / NASA-JPL (public domain) · Solar System Scope (CC BY 4.0) · NOAA ETOPO 2022 · Halley: Philip Stooke / NASA PDS.
Illustrative surfaces: Bodies never mapped globally have an illustrative texture, not a scientific map; the body card says so, and Sources lists them.
3D shape models: NASA PDS: NEAR (Eros), Hayabusa (Itokawa), Galileo (Ida) · ISAS/JAXA: Hayabusa2 (Ryugu) · NASA/Goddard SVS: OSIRIS-REx (Bennu)
Data: Astronomy Engine · NASA/JPL Horizons · JPL SBDB · NASA GIBS · NASA Planetary Data System (mission context products) · IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature · Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · ERA5, Copernicus Climate Change Service (ECMWF)