Hayabusa Probe's Return Delayed By 3 Years
A Reuters newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:
A Japanese space probe launched in an attempt to bring back the first ever rock samples from an asteroid will likely stay in space for three years longer than planned, Japan's space agency said on Wednesday.
Scientists at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) were initially jubilant after Hayabusa, whose name means "falcon" in Japanese, apparently succeeded in landing twice on the asteroid Itokawa nearly 186 million miles from Earth last month.
After examining data from the unmanned probe, however, JAXA said last week it had likely failed to collect samples.
posted by Fergie @ 12/14/2005 08:28:00 AM
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