Sakigake, known before launch as MS-T5, was Japan first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union. It was built to demonstrate the performance of its new launch vehicle, test its ability to escape Earth gravity, and observe the interplanetary medium and magnetic field, and it also served as a reference probe for Halley Comet, with its early measurements intended to improve the later mission of the Suisei probe launched several months afterward.
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1. Sakigake (Wikipedia)
- Sakigake also served as a reference probe for Halley's Comet...to explore Halley's Comet during its 1986 sojourn
- In Group: Comet Probes, Sakigake (????; lit.?'pioneer', 'pathfinder'), known before launch as MS-T5, was Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than th
Operated By: Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Lead paragraph, operator
Sakigake was developed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science for the National Space Development Agency (both of which are now part of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA).
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