Hiten

Rarity: Uncommon

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What Wikipedia says

The Hiten spacecraft (ひてん, Japanese pronunciation: [çiteɴ]), given the English name Celestial Maiden and known before launch as MUSES-A (Mu Space Engineering Spacecraft A), part of the MUSES Program, was built by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of Japan and launched on January 24, 1990.

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Image: NASA/ISAS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.