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Hayabusa (Japanese: γ―γγΆγ, "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.
It is a successor to the Hayabusa mission, which returned asteroid samples for the first time in June 2010. [10] Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and rendezvoused in space with near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu on 27 June 2018. [11] It surveyed the asteroid for a year and a half and took samples.
The probe arrived in the vicinity of Itokawa on 12 September 2005 and initially "parked" in an asteroid–Sun line at 20 km (12 mi), and later 7 km (4.3 mi), from the asteroid (Itokawa 's gravity was too weak to provide an orbit, so the spacecraft adjusted its orbit around the Sun until it matched the asteroid's). Hayabusa landed on 20 November ...
The 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid is thought to have formed in the first 10 million years of the solar system’s existence. ... Japan’s Hayabusa mission in 2010 delivered to Earth a few ...
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 ...
162173 Ryugu (provisional designation 1999 JU 3) is a near-Earth object and also a potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group.It measures approximately 900 metres (3,000 ft) in diameter and is a dark object of the rare spectral type Cb, [11] with qualities of both a C-type asteroid and a B-type asteroid.
Hayabusa: 2005 landed: landed: Landed; returned dust samples to Earth in 2010 - first sample return mission from asteroid; smallest asteroid visited by a spacecraft, first asteroid visited by a non-NASA spacecraft. 2867 Šteins: 4.6: 1969 Rosetta: 2008 800 302 Flyby; first asteroid visited by the ESA. 21 Lutetia: 120 × 100 × 75 (100 km) 1852 ...
Hayabusa arrived at its target, asteroid 25143 Itokawa, on 12 September 2005. After a two-month long observation phase, Hayabusa began descent rehearsals in preparation for its asteroid landings. On 12 November, MINERVA was separated from Hayabusa and headed for Itokawa, but the drop failed and thus MINERVA became the smallest artificial object ...