News JAXA-Hayabusa mission news.

[Orbinaut Pete]

Photos of the re-entry from Spaceflight Now.

 

[dougkeenan]

If dingoes will take babies they'll have no scruples about space probes.

 

[N_Molson]

A major success in space exploration !

Amazing !! :RnR1:

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

The capsule has been recovered intact! :speakcool:

BBC News: "Hayabusa asteroid-sample capsule recovered in Outback".

Re-entry videos filmed from NASA's DC-8 aircraft:​

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfYA4f-AIL0"]YouTube- NASA Team Captures Hayabusa Spacecraft Reentry[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-Xp_-_gLTA"]YouTube- Hayabusa re-entry[/ame]


Hayabusa's last image of Earth:

 

[Wonderer]

Let's hope it holds unubtanium :hmm:

 

[Mandella]

Let's hope it holds unubtanium :hmm:

And not the zombie virus.

:lol:

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Spaceflight Now: "Asteroid capsule recovered from Australian outback".

Photos of the capsule recovery from Spaceflight Now.

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Hayabusa's heat shield has been found!

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Images of the re-entry from ground camera:

Images of the re-entry from DC-8 camera:

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Japan is seeking a Guinness Book of Records listing for Hayabusa!

 

[River Crab]

おめでとう,
良くできました！

Congratulations, and well done!

It's a Japanese probe so it would make for Anime stuff: either turns into a giant robot or irradiates a bunch of schoolgirls who transform into catpeople/mermaids/pop idols/whatever and do the Starlight Honeymoon Spiral Heartache Attack or whatever.

Quiet, you! :lol:

But, actually, there is a comic by the works.
Very well researched, and , dare I say, cute. Highly recommended! It's not done and the translations are even more incomplete, so don't expect to finish now. Still good though.
First comic
Pool of all comics in series

※These links are SAFE, and I did look at all of them, HOWEVER, all internet users should know to mind themselves when leaving a site.
Remember, Danbooru is an imageboard made by users.

Also, a figure!

More images
More details+pre-production image
You can pre-order it on Amazon, price is 2625 JPY. They will stock 2010 November 25, and you can get the funny asteroid version or the Welcome Home version. If you must have it outside Japan, you can use Tenso, which is basically a proxy in the postal system that redirects your package overseas.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Today's NASA Image of the Day:
The Hayabusa spacecraft streaks across the sky as it re-enters Earth's atmosphere over the Woomera Test Range in Australia.

Hi-res version.

 

[Notebook]

Any word as to where it acually landed?

N.

 

[jinglesassy]

And any word on when it will be recovered and opened? the suspense is killing me!

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

And any word on when it will be recovered and opened? the suspense is killing me!

The capsule has already been recovered & opened.

 

[jinglesassy]

Anything in it?

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Anything in it?

We don't know yet - let's hope so!

 

[tblaxland]

Any word as to where it acually landed?

I can't find any coordinates but I did read that it hit the middle of the landing ellipse. BrianJ's post shows where that is: http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?p=177582#post177582

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

BBC News: "Hayabusa asteroid capsule opening gets under way".

 

[jinglesassy]

So when will we know if it has unobtanium or nothing?

 

[garyw]

potentially in a month. The sample container has to be opened in an inert atmosphere and then whatever is inside needs to be analysed - also in an inert atmosphere.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

So when will we know if it has unobtanium or nothing?

Imagine if they opened the capsule and this guy jumped out! :rofl:

 

[tblaxland]

So when will we know if it has unobtanium or nothing?

If they have obtained some, it wouldn't be unobtanium, would it? :dry:

Anyway, from the article...

It is expected to take at least a week to properly open the capsule to get access to its sample containment box.

...plus whatever time to analyse. It wouldn't surprise if it took several months until they know what they have. Then begins the interesting part which will take years: figuring out what it means.

potentially in a month. The sample container has to be opened in an inert atmosphere and then whatever is inside needs to be analysed - also in an inert atmosphere.

They are talking about having found a low pressure gas in the chamber. Not sure how they would extract a sample of that exactly but they would probably want the ambient pressure to be below the chamber pressure to prevent contamination, in addition to inert (nitrogen?) conditions.