1) Japanese invention 2) Japanese space probe
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The Hiten Spacecraft (hiteɴ), given the English name Celestial Maiden and known before launch as MUSES-A (Mu Space Engineering Spacecraft A), part of the MUSES Program, was built by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of Japan and launched on January 24, 1990. It was Japan`s first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the....
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A Japanese lunar probe, launched by ISAS (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science), that made multiple flybys of the Moon from an extremely elliptical Earth orbit and released Hagoromo, a smaller satellite, into lunar orbit. Hiten itself was put into lunar orbit in Feb. 1992 and crashed into th...
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