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The NEC Corporation, in Tokyo, has recently announced that work to create a successor for the Hayabusa sample-return spacecraft has begun. The company is developing Hayabusa-2 for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), targeting a 2014 launch date.
The first Hayabusa (Japanese for peregrine falcon) launched... |
2 March 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Last June, the Hayabusa sample-return mission finally made its way back to Earth, after years of wandering damaged through space. The fine dust grains recovered from its sample container cannot be processed and analyzed however, due to the damage caused in the necessary installations by a tremor.On March 11, 2011, a ... |
23 March 2011
04:39 GMT |
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Officials with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) say that work is progressing smoothly in analyzing the ultra-small particles that the Hayabusa sample-return mission brought back to Earth.The mission investigated asteroid 25143 Itokawa, which was discovered back in 1998 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid ... |
18 March 2011
04:20 GMT |
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Experts with the Japanese Aerospace Explorations Agency (JAXA) announce that the Hayabusa sample-return mission did return artifacts from its trip to near-Earth asteroid 25143 Itokawa.The spacecraft returned to Earth on June 13, 2010, and landed in the Australian Outback. It spent 7 years flying through space, and at... |
18 November 2010
10:00 GMT |
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JAXA, the Japanese Space Agency announced today that Hayabusa, the spacecraft that touched the surface of asteroid Itokawa and came back to Earth, successfully brought back the first samples ever collected from the surface of an asteroid.The samples are small dust grains collected from asteroid Itokawa in 2005, and b... |
16 November 2010
10:34 GMT |
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Experts at JAXA announced that they have recovered a series of small particles from the sample chamber of the battered Hayabusa mission, which returned to Earth this June.They say that some of these small particles, which are invisible to the naked eye, may very well be extraterrestrial dust. If so, then the mission ... |
7 October 2010
08:48 GMT |
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Officials at the Japanese Space Activities Commission say that they have authorized experts to continue development work on the first successor of the sample-return probe Hayabusa. A new rocket called Epsilon has also received approval. The Commission is the board that is in charge of establishing the directions and ... |
21 August 2010
03:37 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, the skies over the Australian desert were lit up, as the Hayabusa space probe's sample canister blazed down to Earth. The device was ejected by a mothership that on June 13 concluded a seven-year flight to the nearby asteroid 25143 Itokawa. While it's still unknown if the spacecraft managed... |
21 July 2010
02:42 GMT |
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The Japanese space agency announced today that “minute particles” have been found inside the capsule of the space probe Hayabusa. It is not yet known if these particles come from the asteroid, or are just impurities from Earth, and the final results might take months.The opening process was started on Jun... |
5 July 2010
11:27 GMT |
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Officials at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announce that their sample-return spacecraft Hayabusa managed to successfully deliver its sample container back to Earth. The mission has been ongoing since 2003, and it traveled more than 2 billion kilometers through the solar system. In 2005, the probe l... |
14 June 2010
03:34 GMT |
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The anticipated return of the Hayabusa space probe from its journey to a near-Earth object (NEO) has had the international astronomical community buzzing with excitement. Experts hope that the spacecraft's canisters contain samples of asteroid dust, or even small space rocks, collected directly from the NEO 2514... |
11 June 2010
03:58 GMT |
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Scientists at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announce that their space probe Hayabusa managed to successfully perform one of its last thruster firings. The maneuver was aimed at setting the spacecraft on track for its destined landing site, in Australia. The probe is returning from a near-Earth object ... |
8 June 2010
03:34 GMT |
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As mid-June approaches, a team of scientists is trembling with anticipation at the thought that the long-since-departed Hayabusa space probe may finally return home. The spacecraft is operated by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and represents the first instance in which a sample-return mission made i... |
3 June 2010
02:47 GMT |
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For many years, astronomers and engineers at various space agencies have been working towards achieving a very challenging goal – conducting a successful sample-return mission to a nearby asteroid. This June, the Japanese space agency JAXA could become the first to actually pull this off. Its battered Hayabusa ... |
23 April 2010
14:01 GMT |
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The Japanese space agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa space probe is a sample-return mission sent to collect data on the small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa. The probe was launched on May 9, 2003, met up with the object, and then landed on it due to a glitch. It managed to take off however, and is currently head... |
21 November 2009
03:25 GMT |
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The Hayabusa space mission, which literally translates into peregrine falcon, is a flight of the Japanese space agency (JAXA), which aimed at landing and retrieving soil samples from the near-Earth asteroid (NEO) 25143 Itokawa. The goal of the mission was to study the potentially dangerous object thoroughly, and then... |
11 November 2009
01:43 GMT |
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Hayabusa, meaning peregrine falcon in Japanese, is an unmanned space mission carried out by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, having the task of returning dust from the near-Earth asteroid known as 25143 Itokawa, measuring about 540 meters/ 270 meters/ 210 meters. Hayabusa was launched into space on 9 May 2003;... |
14 April 2008
03:04 GMT |
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