Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
Provider type
Government
Orbit
Asteroid
Mission type
Astrophysics
Launch site
Japan
Date
Fri, 09 May 2003 04:29:25 GMT
Orbital launch #
#4595 ever
Mission
MUSES-C (renamed Hayabusa after launch) is a sample return mission to the asteroid. Its primary goal is to acquire and verify technology which is necessary to retrieve samples from a small body in the solar system and to bring back them to the earth.