Hayabusa passes third aphelion
HAYABUSA SURVIVES: Japan’s crippled Hayabusa space probe has survived its third aphelion, the point in its orbit furthest from the sun, on its way to a scheduled return to Earth orbit in June 2010. Launched in May 2003, the sample return mission visited the asteroid Itokawa and began its return trip...
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