The MUSES Program (
Mu Space Engineering Spacecraft) was a Japanese space programme consisting of:
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MUSES-A, the Hiten moon spacecraft
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MUSES-B, the HALCA (Highly Advanced Laboratory for Communications and Astronomy) program
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MUSES-C
was a robotic spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to Earth for further analysis.
''Hayabusa'', formerly known as MUSES-C fo ...
, the Hayabusa asteroid sample return spacecraft
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