12 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx discovers ingredients for water on Bennu
... the right asteroid as the target of the OSIRIS-REx mission. We have not discovered any insurmountable issues at Bennu so far,” said Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona, Tucson. “The spacecraft is healthy...
09 September 2016
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on its way to study Bennu after successful launch Thursday
... If all goes according to plan, OSIRIS-REx will study Bennu for two years and then make brief contact with its surface...depositing the sample into a return canister, OSIRIS-REx will leave Bennu and head back for Earth, scheduled to return about two and...
21 October 2020
OSIRIS-REx successfully touches asteroid Bennu
... for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft which yesterday unfurled its robotic arm, and briefly touched asteroid Bennu to collect dust and pebbles from it’s surface. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer...
03 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx officially arrives at Bennu today
.... The spacecraft’s primary science goals are to map the chemistry and mineralogy of the primitive asteroid, estimate Bennu’s mass, refine the asteroid’s spin state model, and generate a global shape model at a resolution of 75 centimetres. It will...
22 September 2017
OSIRIS-REx makes closest Earth approach today
... slingshot to fling it on direct course towards asteroid Bennu. OSIRIS-REx, which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation...into space on the correct path to rendezvous with its target; Bennu Bennu is a B-type asteroid with a ~500 meter diameter. It...
13 December 2019
NASA selects Nightingale site for asteroid sample collection
... Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-Rex) mission team concluded a site designated “Nightingale” – located in a crater high in Bennu’s northern hemisphere – is the best spot for the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to snag its sample. The OSIRIS...
