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HAYABUSA INDEX

HAYABUSA INDEX summarizes English information about Hayabusa mission. Hayabusa (aka MUSES-C) is a Japanese spacecraft by JAXA for the sample-return mission from the asteroid Itokawa.
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JAXA/ISAS Official Sites

Overview

HAYABUSA: ISAS missions page
Asteroid Sample-return Spacecraft "HAYABUSA" (MUSES-C)
Hayabusa Project
"HAYABUSA Mission in Progress,Getting Attention Around the World"

Hot News

Columns and Other Contents

Close-Up on the Asteroid Itokawa - The Achievements of Hayabusa's Scientific Observation
Small window to deep space 300 million kilometers away -- Report from the Hayabusa operation room -- written by "ISAS blogger" Dr. Terazono (aka "Terakin")
Voyage to the world of Le Petit Prince -- What we can learn from asteroids --
Research in the Asteroid 'Sample & Return' Explorer,"HAYABUSA"
High Hopes for the Age of Epic Space Voyages - Asteroid Explorer "HAYABUSA" and Ion-Engine Technology
Let's fly to meet your "Star Prince" Campaign: the campaign concluded
TPS/J: Hayabusa quick reference
Hayabusa project old page: out of date

Other Materials

Misson Overview Movie
Pamphlet
Screen Saver
Earth Swing-By Movie 1 / 2
Hayabusa Fun: Booklets, Papercrafts, and Movies (in Japanese)
Jaxa Digital Archives: CGs
TV@ISAS: Movies of Hayabusa and its Launch

Press Release and News by JAXA/ISAS

isas: ISAS Space News
project: Hayabusa Project Index
jaxapr: JAXA Press Release
topics: Hayabusa Topics Backnumber

2006-06-02 isas Initial Scientific Results of Hayabusa's Investigation on Itokawa - Summary of the Special Issue of "Science" Magazine -

Letter from Donald Kennedy Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief of Science (PDF File)

2006-06-01 isas Recent Status of Hayabusa spacecraft as of the end of May, 2006
2006-03-08 isas/project/jaxapr Current Status of Hayabusa Spacecraft - Communication and Operation Resumption
2005-12-14 isas/project/project/jaxapr Status of the Hayabusa
2005-12-07 isas/project/jaxapr Status of the Hayabusa
2005-11-30 isas Hayabusa: To 880,000 Little Princes and Princesses
2005-11-28 isas The Longest Day of "HAYABUSA"
2005-11-26 isas/project Hayabusa is sure to have succeeded in asteroid sampling! It found the Target Marker with 880,000 names!
2005-11-25 project Hayabusa's First Touching-down Attempt for Sampling and Its Subsequent Schedule
2005-11-24 isas Hayabusa Landed on and Took Off from Itokawa successfully --Detailed Analysis Revealed
2005-11-21 project Successfully released the target marker
2005-11-12 topics MINERVA (micro-rover) released
2005-11-10 isas Hayabusa approached within 70 meters of Itokawa
2005-11-04 isas/project/jaxapr Hayabusa's Practice Descent (Rehearsal) on November 4th
2005-11-03 isas/project MINERVA explores the surface of ITOKAWA
2005-11-02 isas/project Hayabusa's Scientific and Engineering Achievements during Proximity Operations around Itokawa
2005-11-01 isas/project All around a small world!
2005-10-31 isas/project Which direction is "north" on Itokawa?
2005-10-27 isas/jaxapr Current Status of Hayabusa and Events Scheduled in November
2005-10-27 isas/project Hayabusa succeeded to observe the "opposition surge" of Itokawa!
2005-10-26 isas/project Orbital Evolution of Asteroid Itokawa
2005-10-25 isas/project Solar Radiation Pressure Force acting on Hayabusa Station Keeping
2005-10-25 project Comparison of LIDAR measurement with Range O-C data
2005-10-24 isas/project Animation of Itokawa's rotation
2005-10-21 isas/project/topics Altitude Estimation using Navigation Camera
2005-10-17 isas/project/topics The Current Status of the Hayabusa Near-Infrared Spectrometer(NIRS)
2005-10-14 isas/project/topics Generating a shape model of the asteroid Itokawa using the Laser altimeter (LIDAR)
2005-10-11 isas/project/topics Global Mapping of Itokawa ( the initial global shape model )
2005-10-08 project Current Status of Spacecraft
2005-10-07 project Hayabusa has now arrived at the Home Position
2005-10-04 isas/topics Hayabusa arrives at Home Position,and Current Status of Hayabusa Spacecraft
2005-10-03 isas/topics Imaging and position keeping at the Gate Position
2005-09-29 isas/project Station Keeping History of Hayabusa to Itokawa
2005-09-22 isas/project/topics Proposal of the names of representative terrain on Itokawa
2005-09-15 isas/project Itokawa Composite color image
2005-09-14 isas/project The synthesized pseudo-color image of Itokawa which took by Hayabusa
2005-09-14 isas/project HAYABUSA Data (Hayabusa arrived at Itokawa)
2005-09-14 jaxapr Hayabusa arrives at Itokawa, starts hovering operations
2005-09-13 isas/project The doppler and altimeter data at Hayabusa arrival
2005-09-12 isas/project/topics Hayabusa arrives Itokawa
2005-09-11 isas/prohect/topics Itokawa Image on September 10
2005-09-10 isas/project/topics Itokawa Image on September 9
2005-09-09 isas/project Itokawa Image on September 8
2005-09-09 isas/project/topics Itokawa Image on September 7
2005-09-08 isas/project Hayabusa's Primary Visible Imager, AMICA now started its Test Observation
2005-09-07 isas/project/topics Hayabusa detects Itokawa's rotation
2005-09-05 isas/project/topics Hayabusa successfully captured Itokawa Shape for the first time in Space
2005-09-02 project HAYABUSA Status and Proximity Operation
2005-09-02 isas//project Hayabusa,Sept.1st
2005-09-01 topics/topics 1,900 km to the Itokawa
2005-08-29 isas/project Accomplishment of HAYABUSA's outward journey by ion engines
2005-08-29 project Hayabusa performed the Star Tracker imaging of ITOKAWA
2005-08-26 isas/project/topics Hayabusa's navigation camera photographed the "Itokawa"
2005-08-22 project Outline
2005-08-15 project Visible time from Itokawa
2005-06-13 topics Japan-US Joint Science Meeting at Sagamihara Campus
2004-12-09 isas HAYABUSA's ion engines achieved 20,000 hour&unit Space Operation
2004-11-16 topics Welcome to Japan! The first Hayabusa International Symposium
2004-05-25 isas Figure of HAYABUSA$(B!G(Bs Target Taken by Telescope and Radar
2004-05-25 isas Current Status and Future Plan of HAYABUSA
2004-05-24 isas World First Achievement by JAXA ---Earth Swingby of Hayabusa Carrying Ion Engines----------
2004-05-20 topics Earth images taken by Hayabusa after its Earth swing-by
2004-05-20 topics The close shot of area surrounding Japan by Hayabusa just before it came closest to the Earth
2004-05-20 jaxapr Hayabusa Earth Swing-by
2004-05-19 topics The earth pictured by Hayabusa
2004-05-19 topics The Earth taken by the optical navigation camera (a wide angle camera) (Animation)
2004-05-19 topics Animation showing area around Japan taken by onboard camera of Hayabusa
2004-05-19 isas The earth pictured by Hayabusa.
2004-05-19 isas Hayabusa acquired images of the earth and the moon.
2004-05-18 topics Hayabusa acquired images of the earth and the moon.
2004-05-13 isas Fine Adjustments to "HAYABUSA" toward Earth Swingby.
2003-12-26 isas Ion Engines Aboard "HAYABUSA" Is Very Smooth
2003-12-26 isas Asteroid "ITOKAWA", Target of "HAYABUSA", Comes in Sight
2003-10-07 isas The asteroid 1998SF36 has been renamed ITOKAWA.
2003-10-01 isas "Hayabusa" Flying Smoothly and Ion Engines Reached 1,000 Operation Hours!
2003-08-19 isas Ion Engine Operation of Hayabusa
2003-07-15 isas "Hayabusa" and "Toranoko" (Tiger Cub)
2003-06-11 isas M-V-5 Successfully Launches Hayabusa
2003-04-25 isas MUSES-C Overall Test Completed
2003-03-31 isas Second Assembly Operation of M-V-5 Starts
2003-03-31 isas MUSES-C Monthly Report No. 3
2003-03-26 isas First Assembly Operation of M-V-5
2003-03-26 isas MUSES-C Monthly Report No.2
2003-02-20 isas MUSES-C Monthly Report No.1

Y.M. Column

Columns are written by Prof. Yasunori Matogawa, JAXA Associate Executive Director on every Wednesday and released from the Planetary Society of Japan.

2006-04-19 "Space Science Lecture and Film Showing" so enjoyable with full of feverish excitement
2006-04-12 Dedication of the monument in memory of The Pencil Rocket
2006-03-29 Dr. Louis D. Friedman's visit to Japan
2006-03-15 "Hayabusa" operation resumed-----Come-back of phoenix-like legend-----
2006-03-08 Maturity index of space technology
2005-12-21 Thanks for everything this year!
2005-12-14 Hayabusa to wait for next chance
2005-12-08 Fantastic idea of using xenon
2005-12-02 Struggling Hayabusa team
2005-11-30 "Hayabusa" operation-----just like taming a shrew
2005-11-27 The Longest Day of "HAYABUSA"
2005-11-24 "HAYABUSA" found successful in landing and takeoff to and from ITOKAWA
2005-11-23 Public responses on landing of target marker
2005-11-21 "Hayabusa": A message to 880,000 "Star Princes"
2005-11-18 Time sequence for Hayabusa operation delayed by half a day
2005-11-16 Hayabusa, now (at night of Nov. 15th)
2005-11-14 "Hayabusa" report
2005-11-12 "Hayabusa" report
2005-11-09 Rehearsal Descent of Hayabusa aborted
2005-11-02 The images taken by Hayabusa (falcon) released, now ready to swoop down on prey!
2005-09-14 At last, Hayabusa arrived at Itokawa!
2005-09-07 Space news mingled with joy and sorrow
2005-08-17 "HAYABUSA" succeeded in imaging asteroid "ITOKAWA"
2005-04-13 On the memorial day of 50th anniversary of the Pencil Rocket
2004-05-26 High time to make the vision for space activities of Japan
2004-05-20 HAYABUSA; Earth swing-by and the image of the earth
2004-05-12 HAYABUSA making prodigious feat for the first time in the world
2003-05-10 May 10, 2003
2003-05-07 May 7, 2003
2003-04-30 MUSES-C lifting-off soon
2003-04-02 Japanese Original Creativity and Space

TPS Pages

Pages by The Planetary Society.

Space Topics: Hayabusa (MUSES-C)
Basic Facts
The Year in Pictures: 2005
Planetary Radio: Japanese Hayabusa Probe Reaches Asteroid (Guests: Jun'ichiro Kawaguchi and Bruce Murray)

Headline News

Headline News List
2006-03-09 Team Re-Establishes Contact with its "Falcon"
2005-12-14 JAXA Delays Departure of Injured "Falcon" to 2007
2005-11-30 Team Re-Establishes Command and Works to Bring its Falcon Home
2005-11-28 Got Sample? Yes!
2005-11-26 Spacecraft Lands on Asteroid for Second Time and Snatches
2005-11-24 Spacecraft Did Land Last Sunday, But Did Not Get Sample
2005-11-21 Hayabusa Does Not Land on Asteroid in First Attempt, But Successfully Delivers Target Marker
2005-11-14 Japan Conducts Landing Test at Asteroid Itokawa
2005-11-08 JAXA Regrouping for Touch-Down Landings on Asteroid
2005-11-04 Japan's Asteroid Mission Aborts Release of Lander
2005-11-02 Japan's Asteroid Mission Prepares to Drop Lander and Rehearse for Two "Soft" Landings
2005-09-16 Itokawa Beckons as Japan's Spacecraft Searches for Places to Touch Down
2005-09-13 Japan's Hayabusa Arrives at Asteroid Itokawa
2004-05-20 Japan's Hayabusa [MUSES-C] Swings By Earth on Way to Asteroid Itokawa|http://www.planetary.org/news/2004/0520_Japans_Hayabusa_MUSESC_Swings_By.html

Press Release

Planetary Society Weblog by Emily Lakdawalla

2006-03-20 LPSC: Friday: Hayabusa
2006-03-14 LPSC: Monday afternoon and "NASA night"
2006-03-08 More details about Hayabusa's condition
2006-03-07 JAXA has re-established contact with Hayabusa!
2006-02-13 A month until LPSC
2005-12-14 Update on Hayabusa
2005-12-13 Early comments from the Hayabusa press conference
2005-12-13 Hayabusa's departure from Itokawa may be delayed until next fall
2005-12-07 Things aren't looking good for Hayabusa, but it's struggling on
2005-12-05 Not much news on Hayabusa...
2005-11-30 Hayabusa: Contact has been re-established, but thruster problems still puzzling
2005-11-29 Thruster trouble for Hayabusa
2005-11-25 Hayabusa touchdown successful!
2005-11-24 Hayabusa is within 5 kilometers of Itokawa
2005-11-23 I think this is a photo of Hayabusa's target marker
2005-11-23 Big News for Hayabusa: It wasn't hovering, it landed!!
2005-11-22 Hayabusa status update
2005-11-21 Hayabusa Does Not Land on Asteroid in First Attempt, But Successfully Delivers Target Marker
2005-11-20 Hayabusa Update: Hayabusa is alive; the target marker was placed successfully; another try in a few days
2005-11-19 Wrapping up for the evening
2005-11-19 Looks like some kind of anomaly condition for Hayabusa
2005-11-19 Update from a source quoting a JAXA source
2005-11-19 Hayabusa's position
2005-11-19 A gap in the Hayabusa telemetry, as the Earth rotates
2005-11-19 Hayabusa information from a different source: Hayabusa rises?
2005-11-19 No news yet of the marker release...
2005-11-19 Haybusa is descending quickly...
2005-11-19 Hayabusa is GO for touchdown on Itokawa!
2005-11-17 Another Hayabusa update: small delay
2005-11-16 A couple of Hayabusa updates
2005-11-12 Hayabusa released and communicated with Minerva...but it looks like Minerva missed the asteroid
2005-11-10 Amazing Hayabusa images
2005-11-02 New High-resolution Image of Itokawa from Hayabusa
2005-09-17 Hayabusa: Itokawa Beckons as Japan's Spacecraft Searches for Places to Touch Down
2005-09-09 Hayabusa's view of Itokawa acquires more detail...
2005-09-07 An animation of Itokawa from Hayabusa
2005-08-26 Catching up with Hayabusa

Supporters and Communities

Shin'ya Matsuura's L/D: Hayabusa Link Reports JAXA press conferences and provides the most details about Hayabusa (in Japanese)
JSpace: Provides English translation of L/D or other contents.