With rubble from an asteroid tucked inside, a NASA spacecraft fired its engines and began the long journey back to Earth on Monday, leaving the ancient space rock in its rearview mirror.
On October 28, 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully stowed its Sample Return Capsule (SRC) with a sample of surface material from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.
If all went well, the NASA spacecraft will return the samples from Bennu to Earth in 2023
An American spacecraft is about to attempt the audacious task of grabbing rock samples from an asteroid.
Spacecraft OSIRIS-REx is making history as it attempts for the first time to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu by briefly touching down on the rocky surface.
A stream of new studies reveals clues about Bennu’s past, just days before NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission attempts to collect rocks from the asteroid.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is about to collect material from the space rock
NASA held an online conference to talk about TAG, an upcoming event under the OSIRIS-REx mission.
A new study published this month in JGR Planets posits that the major particle ejections off the near-Earth asteroid Bennu may be the consequence of impacts by small, sand-sized particles called meteoroids onto its surface as the object nears the Sun. The study’s primary author is Southwest Research Institute scientist Dr. William Bottke, who used data from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.
Nasa spacecraft makes final preparations to gather material from Bennu’s surface in October
