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Hayabusa (Japanese: はやぶさ, "Peregrine falcon") 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.
Fairing decal of the Japanese character 隼, peregrine falcon Hayabusa cockpit. Reflecting in 2009 on the initial design, the creator of the Hayabusa's look, Suzuki's Koji Yoshirua, said that the intent in 1999 was, "to create a somewhat grotesque design and create a strong initial impact... The mission was to create a total new styling that ...
Hayabusa is a Japanese robot asteroid mission from 2003 to 2010, a.k.a. MUSES-C. Hayabusa (隼 or はやぶさ、ハヤブサ) is the Japanese word for a falcon, especially a Peregrine falcon . Hayabusa also may refer to:
Hayabusa2 (Japanese: はやぶさ2, lit. ' Peregrine falcon 2 ') is an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese state space agency JAXA.It is a successor to the Hayabusa mission, which returned asteroid samples for the first time in June 2010. [10]
Hayabusa returned to Earth with samples from the asteroid on 13 June 2010. Hayabusa was the world's first spacecraft to return asteroid samples to Earth and the world's first spacecraft to make a round trip to a celestial body farther from Earth than the Moon.
At approximately 9:35 AM Japanese Standard Time on June 27th, the JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency) spacecraft Hayabusa 2 successfully rendezvoused with its target, the diamond-shaped ...
Combined Fuji/Hayabusa service hauled by an EF66 locomotive, March 2009. The Hayabusa service commenced on 1 October 1958, operating between Tokyo and Kagoshima. [4] From 20 July 1960, the train was upgraded with 20 series sleeping cars, and extended to run to and from Nishi-Kagoshima (now Kagoshima-Chūō). [4]
The Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa (隼, "Peregrine falcon"), formal Japanese designation Army Type 1 Fighter (一式戦闘機, Ichi-shiki sentōki) is a single-engine land-based tactical fighter used by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service in World War II.