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Hayabusa
Hayabusa (はやぶさ?, literally "Peregrine Falcon") was an
unmanned 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, colour, 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.
A computer rendering of Hayabusa above Itokawa's surface
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| Operator |
JAXA |
| Mission type |
Asteroid sample return |
| Launch date |
9 May 2003 |
| Launch vehicle |
M-V |
| Mission duration |
7 years, 1 month and 4 days |
| Current destination |
Returned to Earth on 13 June 2010 |
| COSPAR ID |
2003-019A |
| Mass |
510 kg (dry 380 kg) |
| Instruments |
| AMICA, LIDAR, NIRS, XRS | | | | | |
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