2003 · Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
Hayabusa
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MUSES-C (renamed Hayabusa after launch) is a sample return mission to the asteroid. Its primary goal is to acquire and verify technology which is necessary to retrieve samples from a small body in the solar system and to bring back them to the earth.
Overview
- Date / time
- May 9, 2003 at 04:29 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Mu Center
- Mission
- Hayabusa
- Mission type
- Astrophysics
- Orbit achieved
- Asteroid