MINERVA-san will be dropped onto the asteroid and will research it as much as possible.

For MINERVA-san, this is a move with no return trip.

In this manga, MINERVA-san is drawn rather largely for the reader's convenience, but she is in fact only 10 centimeters. To put her world in a human context, it would be about 7-8 kilometers.

A target marker with the signatures of 880,000 people also remains on the asteroid.

The distance that light travels in one second.

So that means that every day, the time lag in communications between Hayabusa and Sagami-san is increased by two seconds (one second each way).

The distance that light travels in one second.

So that means that every day, the time lag in communications between Hayabusa and Sagami-san is increased by two seconds (one second each way).

This is the special talent of ventriloquist Tamaki Ikkoku.

He is an amazing ventriloquist, the first one in Japan to be able to pronounce phonemes which begin with "p". If you try actually pronouncing "pa, pi, pu, pe, po" without moving your mouth you will understand just how amazing he is.

He was a major sensation just before the launching of Hayabusa.

She is modeled on the satellite "Oosumi."

Launched on February 11th, 1970, Oosumi was the first Japanese satellite.

The purpose of the launch was to study satellite launch technologies and to perform engineering experiments about satellites.

Oosumi's activity lasted only a short 14-15 hours, but she continued in an elliptical orbit of the Earth.

Over the course of 33 years of orbiting the Earth, Oosumi's elevation gradually began decreasing, and on August 2nd, 2003, she entered the atmosphere and was destroyed.