Asteroid-sampling mission zeroes in on tiny space rock0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 7, 2018
US spacecraft aims to return the largest trove of space dirt to Earth since NASA’s final Apollo mission in the 1970s.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Begins Asteroid Operations Campaign0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 31, 2018
After an almost two-year journey, NASA’s asteroid sampling spacecraft, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx), caught its first glimpse of asteroid Bennu last week and began the final approach toward its target. Kicking off the mission’s asteroid operations campaign on Aug. 17, the spacecraft’s PolyCam camera obtained the image from a distance of 1.4 million miles (2.2 million km).
Asteroid miners could use Earth’s atmosphere to catch space rocks0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 31, 2018
Engineers have come up with a plan to purposefully steer asteroids into Earth’s atmosphere and mine them for resources in orbit. What could possibly go wrong?
New NASA budget could put asteroid grabbing mission in jeopardy0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 21, 2016
A NASA plan to lasso a piece of an asteroid and haul it closer to Earth could face a threat from the US Congress. A bipartisan spending bill introduced in the Senate this week has harsh words about the proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission, which is meant to be a sort of dry run for a future human mission to Mars.
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