[This is a voluntary translation of Taro's Page February 5, 2009 on Hayabusa's Returning Home. ] Hayabusa is returning home. Her ion engines have been successfully reignited. Hooray! The press release states it very briefly: Since then, the HAYABUSA has been in a coast flight, but today [February 4] we reignited the ion engine for a powered flight at 11:35 a.m. (JST) after activating its reaction

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