A Japanese capsule that was part of the Yabusa spacecraft landed safely in South Australia this evening after penetrating through the atmosphere
The capsule landed around 17:00 Israel time in a closed military area. The capsule that may contain samples from the asteroid Itoqua separated from the spacecraft itself only three hours earlier, and the spacecraft was also supposed to enter the atmosphere, but unlike the capsule, it was destined to burn up on the way.
The Japanese space agency, with the help of a special NASA plane with American and Japanese researchers on board, is preparing to receive the capsule that landed today on the Australian outback. The capsule was supposed to contain samples from the soil of the asteroid Itokawa.
The spacecraft left the asteroid already five years ago, but due to repeated malfunctions in its engines, the Japanese had to wait two more years for the time when it should have been in space anyway, and only then launch it on its way, when the Earth was in an area relatively close to the spacecraft's orbit. The spacecraft has covered a distance of about 2 billion kilometers since it was launched in May 2003.
The landing was planned for Sunday, June 13 in a remote test area called Woomera in South Australia. The Japanese Space Agency will carry out an extensive operation to locate the spacecraft with the help of NASA.
"Hyabusa will be the first spacecraft to arrive after contact with an asteroid and return to Earth," said before the landing Tommy Thompson, director of the Hyabusa project on behalf of NASA and the JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
"The mission and its crew have experienced and overcome several challenges in the past seven years. This round trip is a significant achievement, and one that NASA is proud to be a part of."
The Yaabusa spacecraft was launched on May 9, 2003 from the Kagoshima Space Center in Japan. The Yabosa was designed as a flying laboratory. The mission was to investigate some engineering technologies essential for the future bringing of soil samples to Earth for further research. With Yabosa, Japanese space agency engineers hope to obtain important information about important propulsion and navigation systems, as well as the asteroid samples and the capsule that returns them.
The spacecraft weighing 510 kilograms met the asteroid Atokwa in September 2005. Over the course of two and a half months, the spacecraft made a close examination of its shape and made measurements of its surface, altitude distribution, mineral composition, gravity, and the way the asteroid reflects sunlight.
On November 25 of that year, she lightly touched down at Itoqua. It was the second time in history that a spacecraft landed on an asteroid (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous-Shoemaker - NASA's Near Shoemaker landed on the asteroid Eros on February 12, 2001). Yabosa marks the first attempt to take a soil sample from an asteroid to examine the composition of the materials up close
Thanks to user Kashet on the Roter website for the link here and also for the link to the video, the spaceship you see disintegrating in the video is the mother spaceship, while the capsule is clearly seen falling slowly
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I had a problem with the internet connection last night, and during the day I am working. I will update tonight when they arrive at the station.
my father
You did not inform my father about the lifting of the Soyuz
odd:
In short, what you are telling us is that you were offended by being told that quoting entire articles from here is theft (even though that is how it is defined) and you ambushed my father in a corner to accuse him of a similar thing, but since he is embarrassed to steal (because he does not steal) you decided to attack him just like that.
By the way: there is a very good reason for defining the complete copying of the article as theft.
Sites like Hidan (and Roter) sustain themselves by the resources they allocate to advertisements.
The advertisements posted on the knowledge site can only be accessed by visiting the knowledge site.
The importance of the site in the eyes of advertisers is also a function of the number of hits to it.
Once you have quoted the entire article from the science site - the user has no need to come to this site and as a result he is financially harmed.
What you are doing is therefore using the work of the science site to advertise Rotter and this without giving the science site anything in return.
What is it, if not theft?
By the way - no one thought you had anything against archers.
The word theft is a difficult word. Every article was submitted to Rotter, with a link to the source, which is the scientist, indicated at the end. The claim that Mr. Blizovsky had: that it was copied in its entirety, and therefore he called it theft!
I think it is possible to express yourself in a more subtle way and not "this is theft, I will sue you, etc..."
And again I have no problem with archery, she is a very professional surfer in this field, and she is also a wonderful woman!
Michael, a complete article, even with the publication of the source without asking for permission, this is theft. Referral is a legitimate thing, Google does it all the time.
odd:
mozar.
Do you think that copying an article from here to router without publishing the source is not theft?
The news is based on Universe Today and the NASA website. What's the problem with it?
Besides, Keshet did not copy the news but only quoted from it and directed the surfers here, as it should be done. My complaint was against the sweeping and complete copying of news from the Hedan website to Roter. I have no objection to being referred in this way.
Also, I gave her credit for the YouTube link, which was very helpful.
Strange, when surfers uploaded your articles at the time on the Rotter site, you called them thieves! what happened now
A question for Yitzhak Levy:
Does the fact that the spaceship traveled 2,000,000,000 kilometers detract from its value or is this the average for a spaceship?
Maybe Venom from Spiderman jumped from there?
Soon chaos and anarchy will rule the world
There are rumors that people have seen something jump out of the capsule. But they didn't find anything.
Yes really "seed of andromeda"
I wonder what they will find out.
It's funny that there are horror movies on the subject with all kinds of unknown molecules that are found
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