Hayabusa's Scientific and Engineering Achievements during Proximity Operations around Itokawa

Hayabusa's Scientific and Engineering Achievements
during Proximity Operations around Itokawa

Hayabusa arrived at its exploration target, near Earth asteroid Itokawa, on
September 12th of this year after having been propelled there via ion engines
and an Earth swing-by. Since then, it has successfully performed orbital
maneuvers, precisely keeping its position relative to Itokawa. The Hayabusa
project team has made many discoveries while carrying out their ambitious
scientific observations of Itokawa. This release summarizes and reports the
major scientific and engineering achievements in advance of Hayabusa's
unprecedented and historic descent to the surface of Itokawa for sample
collection middle to later this month.

Much more and images from http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/snews/2005/1102.shtml
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