Ready to land
After a two-year journey, the Japanese spacecraft Hyabusa, aka Muses-C, went into orbit 20 kilometres above the potato-shaped asteroid Itokawa on Monday. The probe will spend five months examining the asteroid before landing, collecting a sample and returning to Earth by mid-2007.
Power after the storm
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission last week gave the Waterford 3 nuclear power plant in Louisiana permission to restart after its week-long shutdown in the wake of hurricane Katrina. The plant suffered minimal damage but engineers are carrying out some long-standing valve repairs before restarting.
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