Hayabusa

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title: Hayabusa
text: Hayabusa Hayabusa 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. 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, color, composition, density, and history. In
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description: Japanese probe to asteroid and sample return (2003–2010)
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa
date created: 2004-04-03T21:01:39Z
date modified: 2024-08-30T16:39:25Z
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