Hayabusa spacecraft regains use of another engine
Spirits at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have risen as the Hayabusa asteroid sample return mission team has announced it has managed to resurrect and switch operations to its third ion engine, engine C, which hadn't been used since August 2005. This could greatly increase the...
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