JAXA · Aerospace · 2003
World's first asteroid sample return mission. Rendezvoused with near-Earth asteroid 25143 Itokawa in 2005, performed two touch-and-go sampling attempts despite numerous technical failures, and returned a small sample (~1500 dust particles) to Earth in 2010. Mission was nearly lost multiple times — fuel leak, ion engine failures, communication blackouts — but survived through ingenious recovery ope
| Category | Aerospace |
| Status | Decommissioned |
| Year | 2003 |
| Origin | Japan |
| Height | 1600 mm |
| Weight | 510 kg |
| Payload | 1 kg |
| Degrees of freedom | 3 |
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