The Hayabusa Re-entry Observation Campaign

Dr Peter Jenniskens recently led a campaign in a NASA DC-8 aircraft to observe the reentry of the Japanese asteroid-hunting Hayabusa spacecraft in the Australian Outback. The international team collected awesome footage of the break-up of the spacecraft and the intact sample pod. Dr. Jenniskens will describe the organisation of the expedition and the first results of the observations.

link: http://airborne.seti.org/hayabusa/