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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Astronomers are proposing a new space mission to a near-Earth asteroid (NEO), this time to a rock called 1999 RQ36. They believe that this structure, which roams our planet's surroundings, may in fact be a geological time capsule, from the time when our solar system was born. Analysis of its composition could an... |
12 March 2010
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Now that the technology to explore other worlds and return with samples has been finally developed, a lot of experts are turning their heads to a number of other issues that may affect future sample-return missions to Mars, or near-Earth Objects (NEO). One of the main challenges is finding the appropriate facilities ... |
3 December 2009
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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
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