Controllers Restart Hayabusa Ion Engine
Japan’s Hayabusa asteroid sample-return spacecraft is active again, after controllers restarted one of its ion engines Feb. 4 to nudge it toward Earth. The engine was shut down on Oct. 18, 2007, leaving the probe in an unpowered trajectory en route back from the asteroid Itokawa for a June 2010...
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