NASA Aircraft Videos Hayabusa Re-Entry [Video]
Just in case you thought the re-entry of the Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft couldn't get any better, NASA has just released an aerial video of the speeding sample return capsule followed by the break-up of the rest of the probe as the whole lot tumbled through the Earth's atmosphere.
"We could see the little sample return capsule separate from the main ship and lead its way in; and [we] just had this magnificent display of the break-up of Hayabusa," Trevor Ireland, from the Australian National University, told the BBC.
Source: NASA Aircraft Videos Hayabusa Re-Entry [Video]
"We could see the little sample return capsule separate from the main ship and lead its way in; and [we] just had this magnificent display of the break-up of Hayabusa," Trevor Ireland, from the Australian National University, told the BBC.
Source: NASA Aircraft Videos Hayabusa Re-Entry [Video]
