Hayabusa (spacecraft) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-26

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00:00:58 1 Mission firsts
00:02:07 2 Mission profile
00:04:58 3 MINERVA mini-lander
00:06:25 4 Scientific and engineering importance of the mission
00:07:40 5 Changes in mission plan
00:10:22 6 Mission timeline
00:10:32 6.1 Up to the launch
00:12:15 6.2 Cruising
00:14:12 6.3 In proximity of Itokawa
00:19:55 6.4 Recovery and return to Earth
00:23:35 6.5 Reentry and capsule retrieval
00:26:14 7 Scientific study of samples
00:27:02 7.1 Confirmation of asteroid particles
00:28:36 7.2 Results
00:29:17 8 In popular culture
00:30:19 9 See also



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Hayabusa (Japanese: はやぶさ, "Peregrine falcon") 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, colour, composition, density, and history. In November 2005, it landed on the asteroid and collected samples in the form of tiny grains of asteroidal material, which were returned to Earth aboard the spacecraft on 13 June 2010.
The spacecraft also carried a detachable minilander, MINERVA, which failed to reach the surface.