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Sample-return capsule

Hayabusa Sample-Return Capsule

The small heat-shielded capsule that carried Hayabusa's Itokawa grains back through the atmosphere, separating from the spacecraft (which burned up) and landing by parachute in the Australian outback.

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Sample-return capsule
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Sample-return capsule scientific profile

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    Part of mission Hayabusa.

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Object type
Sample-return capsule
Graph relations
1
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1
Image records
0
Domain
Scientific connections
Status
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Hayabusa Sample-Return Ca...coordinate fields shown only when available
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    Hayabusa

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Scientific schematic

Optical pathCollected lightFocal plane / instrumentSample-return capsule
Object class
Sample-return capsule
Catalog numbers
Not recorded
Graph relations
1
Sources
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space mission

Hayabusa

Hayabusa was the first mission to return a sample from an asteroid, the near-Earth asteroid Itokawa.

asteroid

25143 Itokawa

A near-Earth asteroid sampled by Japan's Hayabusa.

mission milestone

First Asteroid Sample Return

Hayabusa returned the first samples ever collected from an asteroid, from Itokawa, to Earth.

mission program

Hayabusa program

JAXA's asteroid sample-return program; Hayabusa and Hayabusa2 returned samples from asteroids Itokawa and Ryugu.

timeline event

Hayabusa Samples Asteroid Itokawa

Japan's Hayabusa touches down on the asteroid Itokawa; despite great difficulties it returns to Earth in 2010 with the first samples ever collected from an asteroid.

returned sample

Itokawa Sample (Hayabusa)

More than 1,500 microscopic grains from the S-type asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returned by Hayabusa in 2010 — the first sample ever returned from an asteroid. The grains tied ordinary (LL) chondrite meteorites to S-type asteroids and showed signs of space weathering.

Data

Scientific data & provenance

Data & provenance

Stable ID
sample_return_capsule:hayabusa-src
Type
Sample-return capsule
Domain
Scientific connections
Relationships
1
Graph version
1.0.0

Dataset membership

Open data

In the graph export: graph.json · graph.jsonld

Planned API: GET /api/v0/entities/sample_return_capsule:hayabusa-src

Scientific quality

Partial
Unreviewed1 sourcev1.0.0

1 of 4 applicable dimensions complete, 2 partial

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Sources & references

The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.

  • JAXAJapan Aerospace Exploration Agency

    Japanese missions (Hayabusa, Akatsuki) and space science.