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Reminiscence of the Hayabusa-Itokawa Story
Dec 10 2005, Irani

After struggling through a series of failures, since its lift-of, Hayabusa’s two reaction wheels were lost, one on July 31st and another on October 3rd. But, its attitude has been maintained by a single wheel together with the chemical engines aboard,...

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