[FPSPACE] Hayabusa probe zeroes in on Earth impact in mid-June

[James Oberg]

Bringing Back a Piece of Heaven
http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/robotic-exploration/bringing-back-a-piece-of-heaven

BY JAMES OBERG // MARCH 2010 
23 March 2010-A small, severely damaged spacecraft named Hayabusa is limping back to Earth with a jury-rigged ion drive that would have made Star Trek' s Scotty proud. Already seven years into its planned five-year mission to retrieve soil samples from an asteroid, the probe faces one last round of hazards before its midnight landing in Australia sometime in June with a sample canister.
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