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After a process that took a couple of days, the OSIRIS-REx mission has stowed away the sample of regolith that it snatched from an asteroid last week. NASA confirms OSIRIS-REx has secured its ...
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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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 Explorers is an American television series made for NASA+, deemed as a NASA+ Original. The series depicts topics such as the OSIRIS-REx mission, the Artemis program , microgravity , climate change , and Earth's cryosphere .
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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.
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