HAYABUSA Related Information List: Topics (2003)

December 26	[updated]	Ion Engines Aboard "HAYABUSA" Is Very Smooth
December 26	[updated]	Asteroid "ITOKAWA", Target of "HAYABUSA", Comes in Sight
October 29	[updated]	ISAS/JAXA presented that researchers from ISAS/JAXA and other research institutes discovered that evidence of hydrated and/or hydroxylated minerals on the surface of "the smallest terrestrial planet" asteroid 4 Vesta.
October 7	[updated]	The asteroid 1998SF36 has been renamed ITOKAWA.
October 1	[updated]	"Hayabusa" Flying Smoothly and Ion Engines Reached 1,000 Operation Hours!
August 19	[updated]	Ion Engine Operation of Hayabusa
July 15	[updated]	"Hayabusa" and "Toranoko" (Tiger Cub)

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