The Hiten mission (formerly the MUSES-A) was the first space engineering experimental satellite of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) and was launched from Kagoshima Space Center (JKSC) in Japan in January 1990. After the successful insertion into a highly elliptical orbit around the Earth, the Hiten mission carried out several objectives to demonstrate space technologies for swing-by (or gravity assist) techniques and insertion of a sub-satellite into orbital space around the Moon. The results from these engineering missions have also led to follow-on missions, including aerobraking techniques and an excursion to the Lagrange points of the Earth-Moon system.
Hiten Mission
2021-06-01
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Mission Operations of the Spacecraft Hiten
NTIS | 1991
|Results of the MUSES-A "HITEN" Mission
Online Contents | 1996
|Results of the MUSES-A "HITEN" Mission
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1996
|HITEN MISSION ENDS - The three-year mission of Japan's cis-lunar space probe
Online Contents | 1993
|Orbit Determination of Hiten for Insertion into Lunar Orbit
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1993
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