Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.
United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket has been in service for two decades, carrying missions like the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter or the OSIRIS-REx sample ... the ascent trajectory to be correct ...
In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu ... humans may be able to defend our planet from Bennu by deflecting its trajectory if it heads toward Earth.” ...
The OSIRIS-REx mission used some pretty fascinating tech to autonomously acquire rocks and dust from an asteroid called Bennu. Asteroids can act as time capsules, and Bennu reflects what was ...
The OSIRIS-REx launch window opens on Sept. 8, 2016, when the spacecraft begins its two-year journey to Bennu aboard an Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida. After arriving at Bennu in 2018 ...
The study, highlighted in *Communications Physics*, delves into how asteroid trajectory data can contribute ... combined with findings from OSIRIS-REx, has been applied to test theories extending ...