Investigation Information
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.