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On 11 February 1970, a team formerly led by him at the Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science at the University of Tokyo succeeded in launching Japan's first satellite, Ohsumi, making the country the fourth nation in the world to have the capability to send objects into orbit with their own launch vehicles.
Nov 17, 2023 · In 1960, Hideo Itokawa and Ryojiro Akiba co-authored a paper in which they outlined how a small satellite could be put into orbit by adding a sufficiently powerful motor to the third, upper stage of a large sounding rocket.
Mar 4, 2021 · In this study, we have studied both the water and organic contents from a dust particle recovered from the surface of near-Earth asteroid 25143 Itokawa by the Hayabusa mission, which was the...
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The landing on the asteroid occured on November 26, 2005. Unfortunately, the success of the sampling procedure is not guaranted. The return to Earth, originally planed for June 2007, has been postponed to 2010 for technical reasons. The determination of the origin of Itokawa is of great importance.
Mar 19, 1999 · In 1970, Itokawa supervised an experimental sat- ellite, the "Osumi", making Japan the fourth country to achieve satellite launch capability.
The Japanese infrared astronomy satellite AKARI launched in 2006 is bringing remarkable results by its survey of the whole sky and observations of many infrared bodies. In July 2007, the satellite also succeeded in observing the asteroid Itokawa.
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Aug 28, 2018 · Now, those samples have allowed scientists to piece together a detailed history of the asteroid that the first Hayabusa mission visited, a rocky near-Earth asteroid called Itokawa.
