Abstract
The minorbody explorer called "HAYABUSA" conducted sampling mission on the minorbody "ITOKAWA", and now it is planning to develop next minorbody explorers. The LSS, laboratory for space systems at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and JAXA, propose the adhesive based sampling system for next minorbody explorers. By using this sampling system, it becomes possible to get larger size and heavier mass samples compare with the samples which are able to get by HAYABUSA's sampling system. In this paper, Description of the adhesive based sampling system, results of evaluation experiments and analysis of the sampling mechanism are described and discussed.
