Hayabusa Spacecraft Lands Successfully on Asteroid
An AP newswire article by Chisaki Watanabe, via ABC News, reports that:
Japan's space agency said Wednesday its spacecraft had successfully touched down on an asteroid 180 million miles from Earth despite an earlier announcement that it had failed.
On Sunday, JAXA officials had said the Hayabusa probe, on a mission to land on the asteroid named Itokawa, collect material, then bring it back to Earth, failed to touch down after maneuvering within yards of the surface.
However, the agency said Wednesday that data confirmed that Hayabusa had landed on the surface Sunday for a half-hour, although it failed to collect material.
posted by Fergie @ 11/23/2005 06:46:00 AM
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