Investigation Information |
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IDENTIFIER | urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.hayabusa::2.0 |
NAME |
HAYABUSA MISSION |
TYPE |
Mission |
DESCRIPTION |
The Hayabusa spacecraft was successfully launched atop a Japanese M-V launch vehicle on May 9, 2003. The mission plan was to have the spacecraft briefly alight upon the surface of near-Earth asteroid 25143 Itokawa, fire pellets into the surface, collect the surface material ejecta and bring these surface samples back to Earth for intensive study. |
START DATE |
2003-05-09T12:00:00.000Z |
STOP DATE |
2010-06-13T12:00:00.000Z |
REFERENCES |
Binzel, R.P., A.S. Rivkin, S.J. Bus, J.M. Sunshine, T.H. Burbine, MUSES-C target asteroid (25143) 1998 SF36: A reddened
ordinary chondrite, Meteoritics and Planetary Science 36, 1167-1172, 2001. Fujiwara, A., J. Kawaguchi, D.K. Yeomans, M. Abe, T. Mukai, and 17 others, The rubble-pile asteroid Itokawa as observed by Hayabusa, Science 312, 1330-1334, 2006. Kuninaka, Hitoshi, K. Nishiyama, Y. Shimizu, T. Yamada, and H. Koizumi, Re-ignition of Microwave Discharge Ion Engines on Hayabusa for Homeward Journey, The 30th International Electric Propulsion Conference, Florence, Italy, Sept. 17-20, 2007. Yano, H., T. Kubota, M. Miyamoto, T. Okada, D. Scheeres, and 15 others, Touchdown of the Hayabusa spacecraft at the Muses Sea on Hayabusa, Science 312, 1350-1353, 2006. |