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  １. Solar System Exploration
 (1)Halley's Comet Exploration


Halley's Comet Explorer Suisei (PLANET-A)

(Left : Madagascar,1987.SC#796/ Right : Japan, 2012, b)
(2)Asteroid Exploration

Asteroid Explorer (MUSES-C)

Hayabusa accessed to asteroid "Itokawa" and got sample of surface. Now It is flying to return to the Earth.

(Left : Japan, 2008, e / Right : Japan, 2012, d)


Asteroid Explorer Hayabusa 2

　Hayabusa 2 achieved sucsessfully asteroid Ryugu samplereturn.

(Japan, 2012, j)
(3)Lunar Exploration

Lunar Orbiter SELENE (Kaguya)

Launhed in September, 2007

(Bhutan)

Image provided by Ms. Michiko Kobayashi
(4)Venus Exploration

Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki (PLANET-C)

　

(Japan, 2012, g)
(5)Mercury Exploration

Mercury Exploration Mission BepiColombo MMO (Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter)

　MMO was developed by JAXA/ISAS with European Space Agency.

(Japan, 2012, i)
2. Solar Physics Satellite

Solar Physics Satellite Hinode (SOLAR-B)

　

(Japan, 2012, f)
3. Astronomy Satellites

Astronomy Satellite Ginga(ASTRO-C)

　

(Agola, 1999, SC#1107d)

X-Ray Astronomy Satellite Suzaku(Astro-E2)

(Japan, 2008)

Infrared Imaging Satellite Akari （ASTRO-F)

　

(Japan, 2012, e)

X-Ray Astronomy Satellite Hitomi(ASTRO-H)

ASTRO-H is a successor of ASTRO-E2, but failed to start mission.
　　(Japan, 2012, h)


　Other ISAS satellites include X-Ray Astoronomy Obsrevatory(ASCA)、Mars Exproler(NOZOMI)、Magnetosphere Observation Satellite(JIKIKEN), and so on. In 2007, Lunar Exproler SELENE was launched.
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