Hayabusa Mission: mission and targets
Data as of 2026-10-04
Dates declared by the archive
- Project start
- May 9, 2003
- Declared end
- June 13, 2010
The start the archive declares is the start of the project, not the launch, and an end it does not declare does not mean the mission is still running.
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A declared target is what the archive files the mission’s data under, not a record of observation.
Description published by the archive
The Hayabusa (formerly MUSES-C) mission was a JAXA mission that successfully encountered and collected sampled from asteroid (25143) Itokawa in September-November 2005, returning those samples to Earth. The spacecraft itself burned up on reentry into Earth's atmosphere, as planned.
Quoted in English, as the archive publishes it, read on October 4, 2026.
Source
Identifier in the archive, which is its citation: urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.hayabusa
NASA Planetary Data System, PDS Registry, investigation context products. Dates and targets read on September 29, 2026; how to cite the archive: https://pds.nasa.gov/datastandards/citing/