This is the second installment on the JAXA Kaguya Lunar Orbiter mission and I offer a detailed summary of its important mission accomplishments. Have a look back at my July 5th posting on both the JAXA Kaguya and Hayabusa missions for the background on this. A critical fact carried over from the NASA Apollo missions of 1967 […]
Kaguya Part 1 ( かぐや ) Hayabusa ( はやぶさ )
Last month, you must have heard news about the Hayabusa space probe which was sent by the Japan Space Agency (JAXA) to drill into the near-Earth asteroid Itokawa and bring back samples. This successful and important mission will tell us a lot about how the Solar System was formed and the likelihood that we may someday find […]
