Completed · Success
JAXA's Hayabusa, formerly Muses-C, was a sample-return mission to asteroid 25143 Itokawa that returned a re-entry capsule to Earth in 2010.
- Launch vehicle
- M-V-5
- Launch site
- Kagoshima Space Center (Uchinoura), Japan
- Countries
- Japan
- Mission types
- Sample return, Lander
Chronology
Mission timeline
Deployment
Released the MINERVA probing robot
Mission architecture
Vehicles
Hayabusa · Spacecraft
Destinations: 25143 Itokawa, Earth
MINERVA · Lander · Lost after deployment without landing
HAYABUSA capsule · Return capsule
Destinations: Earth
Trajectory record
Time-dependent navigation trajectory
Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.
Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.
- Hayabusa: Predicted · January 27, 2009 to June 12, 2010
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through September 4, 2026
- Hayabusa - NASA Science — NASAMission page · Supports: mission claims · destination/body context · event claims
- HAYABUSA - The Final Approach - JAXA — JAXAMission page · Supports: mission claims · destination/body context · event claims
- JAXA President Comment on Retrieval of the HAYABUSA Capsule — JAXAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context