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  2. Lucy (spacecraft) - Wikipedia

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    On New Horizons, the LORRI instrument is inside of the spacecraft, but on Lucy L'LORRI is mounted on an Instrument Pointing Platform (IPP). [31] L'TES. L'TES – thermal infrared spectrometer (6–75 μm). L'TES is similar to OTES on the OSIRIS-REx mission and was built at Arizona State University. It will reveal the thermal characteristics of ...

  3. 152830 Dinkinesh - Wikipedia

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    Dinkinesh, the name borrowed from an Ethiopian word for the Lucy fossil, was the first flyby target of NASA's Lucy mission, which approached 425 km (264 mi) from the asteroid on 1 November 2023. [9] During the flyby, the Lucy spacecraft discovered that Dinkinesh has a contact-binary natural satellite , named Selam, which is 220 meters (720 ft ...

  4. NASA spacecraft delivering biggest sample yet from an asteroid

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    A NASA spacecraft will fly by Earth on Sunday and drop off what is expected to be at least a cupful of rubble it grabbed from the asteroid Bennu, closing out a seven-year quest. ... the Osiris-Rex ...

  5. Shadowy asteroid Dinkinesh is ‘about to be revealed to humanity’

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    The NASA Lucy mission will closely fly by the first of 10 asteroid targets on Wednesday. The mission will capture detailed images of Dinkinesh’s surface.

  6. ‘Part science, part art, part luck’: NASA’s Lucy spacecraft ...

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    Hoping to piece together the history of the solar system, NASA is set to embark on one of its most ambitious missions: Lucy, a 12-year journey to observe the primitive asteroids trapped in Jupiter ...

  7. OSIRIS-REx - Wikipedia

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    OSIRIS-REx II was a 2012 mission concept to replicate the original spacecraft for a double mission, with the second vehicle collecting samples from the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos. It was stated that this mission would be both the quickest and least expensive way to get samples from the moons.

  8. A long-awaited sample from a near-Earth asteroid is about to ...

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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.

  9. Amy Simon - Wikipedia

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    She was a co-investigator on the Cassini-Huygens Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) and is the deputy instrument scientist for the OSIRIS-REx Visible and IR Spectrometer (OVIRS), as well as for the Landsat 9 Thermal Infrared Sensor-2 [16] instrument and the deputy principal investigator for the Lucy spacecraft L'Ralph instrument. [17]