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The first US mission sent to a near-Earth asteroid, OSIRIS-REx made history several times over. It performed the closest orbit of a planetary body by a spacecraft. Bennu became the smallest object ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu to Earth Sunday, dropping the sample capsule in the Utah desert. ... 2023 at 6:33 PM. ... The mission now has a ...
The OSIRIS-REx mission will drop off its cargo, about a cup’s worth of rocks and soil from an asteroid, in the Utah desert on September 24. Here’s how NASA prepared. ... September 25, 2023 at ...
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to Earth on 24 September with samples collected from asteroid Bennu. [2] NASA launched the Psyche spacecraft on 13 October 2023, an orbiter mission that will explore the origin of planetary cores by studying the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche, on a Falcon Heavy launch vehicle.
The cost of the OSIRIS-REx mission is approximately US$800 million, [26] not including the Atlas V launch vehicle, which is about US$183.5 million. [27] The OSIRIS-APEX extended mission costs an additional US$200 million. [16] It is the third planetary science mission selected in the New Frontiers program, after Juno and New Horizons.
Starting November 7, 2023, the season's primary focus was the embracing [clarification needed] mission of OSIRIS-REx. Five episodes for the season were made, each depicting part of the mission in a chronological sequence. Episode 1: The Launch; Episode 2: Challenges of Bennu; Episode 3: TAG; Episode 4: Preparing for the Asteroid; Episode 5 ...
Pieces of Asteroid Bennu about to come to Earth as part of Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission. Andrew Griffin. September 22, 2023 at 12:07 PM. ... Nasa sent its Osiris-Rex spacecraft to Bennu in 2016 ...
2023-08-19: 30 x 15 km [2] [39] [40] Mission failed before landing attempt. Chandrayaan-3: ISRO: Moon: 2023-08-23: 4.5 x 2.5 km [41] or 4 x 2.4 km [42] OSIRIS-REx return capsule: NASA: Earth: 2023-09-24: 30 x 80 km, [43] 14 x 58 km, [44] or 12 x 30 km [45] Sample return from an asteroid. Capsule landed ~ 8 km from the center. [45] Peregrine ...