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On 3 December 2018, NASA confirmed that OSIRIS-REx had matched the speed and orbit of Bennu at a distance of about 19 km (12 mi), effectively reaching the asteroid. OSIRIS-REx performed closer passes of the Bennu surface, initially at about 6.5 km (4.0 mi) through December to further refine the shape and orbit of Bennu.
Successfully collected sample of Bennu on 20 October 2020 and returned the sample to Earth on 24 September 2023. For its extended mission called OSIRIS-APEX, the spacecraft is now en route to encounter Apophis on 8 April 2029. 13 Discovery 13 Lucy: 16 October 2021: Atlas V 401: NASA: 152830 Dinkinesh: Flyby Successful 52246 Donaldjohanson: en route
Alinda K. Mashiku (born 1982), an aerospace engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is a member of the Flight Dynamics Team for the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample-return mission, investigating nonlinear and hybrid estimation techniques for statistical orbit determination and aerocapture analysis.
Nasa sent its Osiris-Rex spacecraft to Bennu in 2016, and it touched down on the distant asteroid in 2020, and scooped up a piece. Since then, it has been flying back towards Earth to drop the ...
A helicopter transports NASA's OSIRIS-REx return capsule from Utah to Texas. NASA/Keegan Barber It marked the first time an asteroid sample was ever collected and returned to Earth.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully stowed the “abundant” sample collected from the asteroid Bennu.This video shows OSIRIS-REx sealing the sample inside the return capsule ahead of ...
The successful October 2020 sample collection, showing OSIRIS-REx touching down on the Nightingale sample site. 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 stands for "Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer", and was launched on 8 September 2016. [12] This mission plan was to orbit an asteroid, at the time named 1999 RQ 36 (now 101955 Bennu), by 2020. After extensive measurements, the spacecraft collected a sample from the asteroid's ...