Japanese Asteroid Probe Presumably Back on Earth
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA’s) asteroid sample return spacecraft, Hayabusa, presumably has landed in Australia as planned. The BBC reports that the reentry spacecraft hit the top of the atmosphere at 13:50 GMT (9:50 am EDT), but it would take recovery teams several hours to pinpoint the landing site and determine if it landed intact. No information about the actual landing has yet appeared on JAXA’s website. A video of the reentry is on UStream. The fireball begins to emerge at 2:58 into the video. Beautiful!
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