Hayabusa is a Japanese robot asteroid mission from 2003 to 2010, a.k.a. MUSES-C.

Hayabusa (隼 or はやぶさ、ハヤブサ) is the Japanese word for a falcon, especially a Peregrine falcon. Hayabusa also may refer to:

Civilian transport

  • Suzuki Hayabusa, motorcycle
  • Manshū Hayabusa, 1930s airliner

Rail

  • Hayabusa (train), Japanese named Shinkansen service
  • Hayabusa (sleeper train), Japanese sleeper train service which ran until 2009
  • Hayabusa, British Rail Class 43 (HST), train with Hitachi experimental hybrid-power technology
  • Hayabusa Station in Tottori Prefecture in Japan

Japanese military vehicles

  • Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa, World War II fighter airplane

Watercraft

  • Hayabusa-class torpedo boat of the Imperial Japanese Navy
  • Hayabusa-class patrol boat, post-war Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force missile boat

Space exploration

  • Hayabusa2, asteroid-targeted mission, launched in 2014
  • Hayabusa Mk2, comet-targeted mission series, launching 2018 or later

Other

  • Hayabusa (Mulan), Shan-Yu's pet saker falcon in the 1998 animated film Mulan
  • Hayabusa (wrestler), ring name of Japanese wrestler Eiji Ezaki (1968–2016)
  • Ryu Hayabusa, fictional video-game character
  • Hayabusa: Harukanaru Kikan, film
  • Goodbye Hayabusa, two professional wrestling events produced by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) in 1999
  • Hayabusa Terra, a surface feature on the dwarf planet, Pluto

See also

  • Hayabusachō, district in Tokyo