OSIRIS-REx

Asteroid-sampling mission zeroes in on tiny space rock 0
- 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.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has finally arrived at asteroid Bennu 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 4, 2018
Scientists hope the probe will reveal if such space rocks helped kick-start life on Earth

By David Aragorn
Watch NASA arrive at the asteroid on a potential collision course with Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 30, 2018
NASA’s asteroid-chaser will reach its target, Bennu, on Dec. 3 and you don’t want to miss a thing.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Spies Its Target Asteroid 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 20, 2018
After an almost two-year journey through space, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) caught its first glimpse of Bennu, a carbonaceous asteroid whose makeup may record the earliest history of our Solar System, last week and began the final approach toward the asteroid. Using its multipurpose PolyCam camera, the spacecraft obtained the image of Bennu from a distance of 1.4 million miles (2.2 million km), or almost six times the distance between the Earth and Moon.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Begins Asteroid Operations Campaign 0
- 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).

By David Aragorn
‘Asteroid forensics’ could reveal the origin of water 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- August 21, 2018
By studying water-rich meteorites on Earth, Museum scientist Helena Bates is working out where in the solar system the meteorites – and the water they contain – originated from.

By David Aragorn
Two asteroid missions will help shape the economy of the 21st century 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 11, 2018
Later in 2018, two robotic probes, launched by NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will each reach separate asteroids.

By David Aragorn
Asteroid-bound spacecraft finds signs of life—on Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 28, 2018
A camera onboard the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of the Pacific Ocean, Baja California in Mexico, and parts of the southwestern United States. The dark lines are missing data caused by short exposure times

By David Aragorn
Potentially hazardous, near-Earth asteroid, larger than thought 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 28, 2017
Classified as “potentially hazardous”, the near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon has a diameter of about six kilometres — roughly one kilometre larger than previous estimates, new radar images obtained by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico suggest.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Zips Off To Collect Asteroid Sample 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 12, 2017
NASA’s latest New Frontiers mission, OSIRIS-REx, will venture to a near-Earth asteroid to discover clues about the unique resources asteroids hold, processes that affect asteroids’ orbital paths and their potential for impacting Earth, and the origins of life in the solar system.

By David Aragorn