ISAS M-V Hayabusa

Name: ISAS M-V Hayabusa
Start: 2003-05-09T04:29:25.000Z
Location: Mu Center

M-V rocket used for the Hayabusa space launch

M-V

Status

Success

Date

9 MAY 2003

04:29

Launch Provider

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science

Launch Pad

Mu Center

Uchinoura Space Center, Japan

Mission Overview

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.

Rocket

M-V

Mission Type

Astrophysics

Orbit

Asteroid

Stages

Livestream

Not available

Rocket Details

The M-V rocket also called Mu-5 was a Japanese solid-fuel rocket designed to launch scientific satellites.

Height

30.8 m

Diameter

2.5 m

Launch Mass

137 T

Thrust

3,780 kN