This page records M-V | Hayabusa and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.
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MUSES-C (renamed Hayabusa after launch) is a sample return mission to the asteroid. Its primary goal is to acquire and verify technology which is necessary to retrieve samples from a small body in the solar system and to bring back them to the earth.
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The M-V rocket also called Mu-5 was a Japanese solid-fuel rocket designed to launch scientific satellites.
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Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
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