Hiroshi Yamakawa (b. 1965) is an interplanetary trajectory and mission designer at ISAS. He worked for the MUSES-C mission, mainly in its early phase. He is now the study manager of the MMO Mercury orbiter, planned as one of the spacecraft for the ESA-ISAS international Mercury mission BepiColombo.
Discovered on 30-11-1996 in Oizumi by Kobayashi, T.