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"OSIRIS-REx will return the sample to Earth in September 2023." The live stream, on NASA's YouTube page, is scheduled to begin at approximately 11:45 a.m. EST on December 3rd, and will carry on ...
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.
OSIRIS-REx, the “Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer”, collected an 8.8-ounce sample of asteroid 101955 Bennu back in 2020.
NASA Plus, stylized as NASA+, is an on-demand streaming service by NASA. It launched on November 8, 2023. It launched on November 8, 2023. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It runs educational content, [ 2 ] and is available on iOS , Android , web browsers on desktop computers, as well as media players such as Roku , Apple TV , and Fire TV . [ 3 ]
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 ...
Mission logo for the OSIRIS-REx mission. He is Australia's only junior NASA ambassador for NASA's mission OSIRIS-REx. Mission OSIRIS-REx is to save Earth from the potential hazard asteroid, Bennu, which is at risk of colliding with Earth in the future. This view of asteroid 101955 Bennu has been cropped from the original image.
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 ...
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 ...