http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4531224.stmA probe sent to visit an asteroid will remain in space until 2010, according to Japanese space officials.
Controllers have lost contact with the troubled craft and are unable to command it to begin the journey home.
The Hayabusa probe should have left asteroid Itokawa this month carrying dust samples for return in 2007.
But the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced last week that a landmark attempt to collect rock material had probably failed.
Poor bastards. It really just isn't working for them, is it? Oh well, fingers crossed for another year...