The general concept of the “Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout” (MASCOT) is to provide
a small landing system intended to be deployed from a supporting main spacecraft. It
is specifically designed to be compatible with JAXA’s Hayabusa 2 (HY2, scheduled
for launch in 2014) mission design and the environment given by the target asteroid
1999JU3. The design foresees an OBC for gathering, processing, compressing and
storing of the scientific payload and the housekeeping data and to run system and
subsystem tasks
