TY - GEN
T1 - Hayabusa's reentry and recovery of its capsule
AU - Kawaguchi, Jun'ichiro
AU - Yamada, Tetsuya
AU - Kuninaka, Hitoshi
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The Asteroid Explorer Hayabusa was launched by M-V rocket from Uchinoura Space Center, JAXA on May 9, 2003. Conquering several troubles during totally 7 years of orbital flight, it returned to the vicinity of the earth and completed the powered-flight by the ion thruster in the begging of 2010. After successive trajectory correction maneuvers for the reentry ,the mother spacecraft successfully released a small capsule with asteroid sample. The capsule has entered the earth atmosphere in the desert of the Australia on June 13, 2010, and successfully have been recovered by June 15. The present paper overviews the return operation of the Hayabusa mother spacecraft and reentry flight and recovery operation of the sample return capsule.
AB - The Asteroid Explorer Hayabusa was launched by M-V rocket from Uchinoura Space Center, JAXA on May 9, 2003. Conquering several troubles during totally 7 years of orbital flight, it returned to the vicinity of the earth and completed the powered-flight by the ion thruster in the begging of 2010. After successive trajectory correction maneuvers for the reentry ,the mother spacecraft successfully released a small capsule with asteroid sample. The capsule has entered the earth atmosphere in the desert of the Australia on June 13, 2010, and successfully have been recovered by June 15. The present paper overviews the return operation of the Hayabusa mother spacecraft and reentry flight and recovery operation of the sample return capsule.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79959390547
SN - 9781617823688
T3 - 61st International Astronautical Congress 2010, IAC 2010
SP - 9217
EP - 9220
BT - 61st International Astronautical Congress 2010, IAC 2010
T2 - 61st International Astronautical Congress 2010, IAC 2010
Y2 - 27 September 2010 through 1 October 2010
ER -