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World's First Asteroid Probe Launched.
(From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI))
Japan launched on May 9 the world's first space probe aimed at bringing back rock samples from an asteroid. An M-V-5 rocket carrying the unmanned probe, dubbed MUSES-C (Mu Space Engineering Spacecraft-3), blasted off from the Kagoshima Space Center in Uchinoura, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, and successfully put the probe into orbit on a four-year mission.
MUSES-C is scheduled to reach the tiny "1998SF36" asteroid - about 500 meters in diameter and some 300 million kilometers from Earth - two years later, according to the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), an affiliate of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The probe will then fire a metal bullet into the surface of the asteroid and scoop up a small amount of the resulting fragments. It is set to return to Earth in 2007 and release a capsule containing the samples upon re-entry into the atmosphere, with the capsule parachuting to a specified recovery area.
These will be the first space samples to be brought back since the moon rocks collected under the U.S. Apollo lunar exploration program. At present, a U.S. spacecraft is on a similar mission to collect dust from the tail ...
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