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The OSIRIS-REx mission of NASA's New Frontiers program was launched towards 101955 Bennu on 8 September 2016. On 3 December 2018, the spacecraft arrived at the asteroid Bennu after a two-year journey. [ 17 ]
OSIRIS-REx in Launch Configuration. OSIRIS-REx [a] was a NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission that visited and collected samples from 101955 Bennu, a carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid. [14]
The OSIRIS-REx mission was launched in September 2016 on a mission to return samples from the asteroid 101955 Bennu. [25] [26] The samples are expected to enable scientists to learn more about the time before the birth of the Solar System, initial stages of planet formation, and the source of organic compounds that led to the formation of life ...
Illustration of OSIRIS-REx with TAGSAM extended. TAGSAM or Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism is a robotic arm on the OSIRIS-REx space probe designed and used for collecting a sample from asteroid 101955 Bennu. [1] OSIRIS-REx was launched in 2016. It arrived at asteroid Bennu in August 2018, and began scientific studies.
NASA is working on a modelling study that considers the asteroid 101955 Bennu, which has a diameter of 246 meters and capable of a 1.15 gigaton impact, as a modelling target for the HAMMER concept. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is circling the Sun at 63,000 mph and 54 million miles from the Earth .
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OSIRIS-REx return capsule after landing at UTTR in 2023. The site has also been used as a landing site for sample return in NASA's planetary science missions, including comet material in the Stardust mission and the OSIRIS-REx mission to return material from asteroid (101955) Bennu. [4] [5]
Daniella ("Dani") Mendoza DellaGiustina is a Mexican American planetary scientist and academic. She is the principal investigator for NASA's OSIRIS-APEX Mission to asteroid (99942) Apophis, Deputy Principal Investigator of NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission, and assistant professor at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.