NASA’s asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx probe will head back to Earth in May

Posted on 27/01/2021 by Engadget

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will soon bid asteroid Bennu farewell. NASA has announced that OSIRIS-REx will start its journey back to our planet on May 10th, two-and-a-half years after it rendezvoused with the near-Earth asteroid. The agency launched th...

NASA confirms OSIRIS-REx has secured its asteroid sample

Posted on 29/10/2020 by Engadget

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. Shortly after ,the team discovered that small particles appeared to be leaking from the collector h...

NASA will try to stow away its leaking asteroid sample tomorrow

Posted on 27/10/2020 by Engadget

Last week the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft grabbed material from the surface of an asteroid, but scientists report it grabbed so much that the collector head seems to be leaking small particles. Today NASA announced it’s moving up plans to secure what it gr...

NASA works to secure the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample

Posted on 23/10/2020 by Engadget

Earlier this week the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reached out and took a small bite from the asteroid Bennu. Now the team behind the spacecraft reports they may have been a little too successful. Their goal was to grab at least 60 grams of its surface mate...

Watch OSIRIS-REx take a bite out of asteroid Bennu’s surface

Posted on 22/10/2020 by Engadget

OSIRIS-REx became the first mission to gather samples from an asteroid in space after it successfully collected rocky “regolith” material from the surface of Bennu. Now, NASA has released several videos showing exactly how that six-second collection...

NASA shares first images from OSIRIS-REx’s touchdown on Bennu

Posted on 21/10/2020 by Engadget

It made history in the span of approximately six seconds. On Tuesday afternoon, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully completed its touch-and-go meeting with 101955 Bennu. In the process, it managed to collect a sample of regolith it will now car...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx successfully collected bits of an orbiting asteroid

Posted on 20/10/2020 by Engadget

NASA made history on Tuesday afternoon as its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully “tagged” the asteroid, 101955 Bennu, and in doing so collected a small sample of regolith from the passing celestial body’s surface. This marks the first time that a NAS...

Watch NASA’s OSIRIS-REx try to collect an asteroid sample at 5PM ET

Posted on 20/10/2020 by Engadget

Later today, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will attempt to briefly make contact with the asteroid Bennu to collect samples from the surface of the planetoid. Since 2018, the craft has been studying Bennu, sending NASA images and telemetry on the aster...

OSIRIS-REx will attempt its first asteroid sample collection next month

Posted on 25/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is almost ready to touch down on the asteroid Bennu, NASA announced today. On October 20th, OSIRIS-REx will make its first attempt at collecting a sample of the asteroid’s rocks and dust. This will be the first time NASA...

See every square foot of asteroid Bennu, Earth’s little frenemy

Posted on 07/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

No pile of dirt and rocks is as interesting as those on the asteroid Bennu. While it has a face only an astrogeologist could love, that rubble could be as old as the solar system itself. Bennu is also number two on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard...

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