- JAXA: Hayabusa (MUSES-C)
Information on the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) spacecraft and mission to investigate an asteroid, Itokawa (1998SF36), known as an earth-approaching type.
www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/enterp/missions/hayabusa/index.shtml
- Wikipedia: Hayabusa
User-created article about Hayabusa, the JAXA unmanned space mission to collect a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa
- NSSDC Master Catalog Display: Hayabusa (Muses-C)
Overview of the Hayabusa mission's scientific objective, to collect a surface sample of material from a near-Earth asteroid and return the sample to Earth for analysis.
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=2003-019A
- NASA: Hayabusa (MUSES-C)
Profile of the Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft that made contact with near-Earth asteroid (25143) Itokawa in November 2005, and is planned to return to Earth with sample material in 2010.
neo.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/musesc.html
- Planetary Society of Japan: Let's Fly to Meet Your "Star Prince"
Working to interest the public in space exploration by placing the names of at least one million people on the target marker used by the MUSES-C spacecraft. Program concluded in 2002.
www.planetary.or.jp/muses-c/pc/en/index.html
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