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Hiten-Hagomoro Mission to the Moon

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Audience/Grade: College Freshman - College Senior
Discipline(s): Aerospace Engineering
Learning Resource Type: Reference - Article/Document
Media Type:

 WWW
Author(s): Kirk Munsell, Samantha Harvey
Organization: NASA
Description: "Hiten was Japan's first mission to Earth's moon. The mission was designed to deliver a small orbiter - Hagomoro - to the Moon and test new technologies, including aerobraking manuever - using a planet's atmosphere to slow down. Hiten's successful use of Earth's amtosphere to slow down was the first successful aerobraking by a deep space probe. The spacecraft made a total of 10 wide orbits around the moon before it was deliberately crashed into the moon in April 1993. Hiten was named after a flying, music-playing Buddhist angel. Hiten was Japan's first-ever lunar flyby, lunar orbiter and lunar surface impact. Japan was the third nation to orbit the Moon."
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Keywords: lunar landing, space mission, space craft, Hiten, Hiten-Hamgomoro
   
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Use of Resource: History of Technology
Difficulty: Easy
Interactivity Level: Low

   
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Publication Date: 2008
Platform/Format: WWW
Cost: Free
Download URL: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?MCode=Hiten
Metadata: IEEE LOM Record
Collection: NEEDS NEEDS