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Hayabusa
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was a robotic spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to Earth for further analysis. Hayabusa, formerly known as MUSES-C for Mu Space Engineering Spacecraft C, was launched on 9 May 2003 and rendezvoused with Itokawa in mid-September 2005. After arriving at Itokawa, Hayabusa studied the asteroid's shape, spin, topography, color, composition, density, and history. In November 2005, it landed on the asteroid and collected samples in the form of tiny grains of asteroidal material, whi
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- Hayabusa
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Muses-C (before launch)
- Spaceflight.image
- 300px
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- An artist's rendering of Hayabusa above Itokawa's surface
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- sample return
- Spaceflight.operator
- JAXA
- Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
- 2003-019A
- Spaceflight.SATCAT
- 27809
- Spaceflight.launch_mass
- 510 kg
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- M-V
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Uchinoura Space Center
- Spaceflight.disposal_type
- sample return capsule: recoveredspacecraft: ballistic reentryMinerva and rover: lost contact
- Spaceflight.last_contact
- Minerva: 12 November 2005
- Spaceflight.recovery_date
- sample capsule: 07:08, 14 June 2010
- Spaceflight.decay_date
- spacecraft: 13 June 2010
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- sample capsule: 14:12 UT
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- near Woomera, Australia
- Spaceflight/IP.type
- lander
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- Mission firsts
- Mission profile
- MINERVA mini-lander
- Scientific and engineering importance of the mission
- Changes in mission plan
- Mission timeline
- Up to the launch
- Cruising
- In proximity of Itokawa
- Recovery and return to Earth
- Reentry and capsule retrieval
- Scientific study of samples
- Confirmation of asteroid particles
- Results
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
was a robotic spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to Earth for further analysis. Hayabusa, formerly known as MUSES-C for Mu Space Engineering Spacecraft C, was launched on 9 May 2003 and rendezvoused with Itokawa in mid-September 2005. After arriving at Itokawa, Hayabusa studied the asteroid's shape, spin, topography, color, composition, density, and history. In November 2005, it landed on the asteroid and collected samples in the form of tiny grains of asteroidal material, which were returned to Earth aboard the spacecraft on 13 June 2010.
The spacecraft also carried a detachable minilander, MINERVA, which failed to reach the surface.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hayabusa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.