News on research satellites
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- The "Pioneer anomali" explained
- DAWN will stay with Vesta for an extra 40 days
- Voygare 1 still far from the interstellar medium
- Nuclear spaceship being prepared for launch
- Rocket launched into Aurora
- Satellite images of nighttime lights help track disease outbreak
- Voyage1 shuts down heat but continues another 13 years
- Voyager1 reaches a pause to interstellar space
- First images from VIIRS
- First space-measurements of Earths water-vapor
- Mission to touch the Sun in 2018
- Manned mission to asteroid
- ROSAT crashes to Earth
- ESA chooses next two science missions
- UARS satellite plunged into the Pacific Ocean
- Exploring an asteroid with the Desert RATS
- UARS satellite crashed - location unknown
- The 6 ton UARS satelite crasches tonight
- Underwater training for manned asteroid mission underwater
- 6ton NASA satellite soon to crash
- Spacejunk is a problem but tiny bits are worse
- Tour the Solarsystem with spaceprobes
- Jupiter-Bound spacecraft captures Earth and Moon
- Juno Spacecraft Launches to Jupiter
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Hayabusa samples origin confirmed
Wednesday, 17 November 2010 10:28
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The Japanese space agency JAXA has carefully analysed the samples returned to Earth by the Hayabusa spaceprobe, that visited asteroid Itokawa and concludes that they are indeed from the asteroid
JAXA has been engaged in collecting and categorizing particles in the sampler container that were brought back by the asteroid explorer "HAYABUSA." Source: JAXA |




