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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.
OSIRIS-REx launched in September 2016 and reached Bennu in 2018, then spent nearly two years orbiting the asteroid before venturing close enough to snatch a sample of the loose surface material ...
OSIRIS-REx was launched on 8 September 2016, flew past Earth on 22 September 2017, and rendezvoused with Bennu on 3 December 2018. [17] It spent the next two years analyzing the surface to find a suitable site from which to extract a sample. On 20 October 2020, OSIRIS-REx touched down on Bennu and successfully collected a sample.
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The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission shortly after touching down in the desert in Utah. A sample-return mission is a spacecraft mission to collect and return samples from an extraterrestrial location to Earth for analysis. Sample-return missions may bring back merely atoms and molecules or a deposit of complex compounds ...
OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule at USAF Utah Range. Phenolic-impregnated carbon ablator (PICA), a carbon fiber preform impregnated in phenolic resin, [31] is a modern TPS material and has the advantages of low density (much lighter than carbon phenolic) coupled with efficient ablative ability at high heat flux. It is a good choice for ablative ...
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 Discovery Program is a series of Solar System exploration missions funded by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through its Planetary Missions Program Office. The cost of each mission is capped at a lower level than missions from NASA's New Frontiers or Flagship Programs. As a result, Discovery missions tend to be ...