JAXA's Hayabusa Gets Its Sample, But Now Has To Get Home
On its second touchdown, Japan's Hayabusa appears to have succeeded in collecting samples from the surface of the asteroid Itokawa, but the weakened spacecraft will have problems returning them to Earth. A faulty valve in the spacecraft's reaction control system (RCS) positioning gas jets may have...
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