Robotic asteroid-visitor gets lost in space
‘AFTER carrying it safely for nearly a billion kilometres, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa has managed to lose its asteroid-hopping robot when the duo were within 200 metres of their destination.
The 10-centimetre-tall robot, called Minerva, was going to snap close-up images of the asteroid Itokawa, and measure surface temperatures. Hayabusa failed to release the robot during the first attempt on 4 November, because two of its three gyros had failed.’
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