September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
... the air of any particles) and on the rigorous selection of materials allowed to be in contact with the samples. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during its preparation for encapsulation in its payload fairing prior to launch in September 2016. It is the...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
...successful Hayabusa mission, Hayabusa-2, launched in November 2014, will perform a sample return of a water-rich asteroid. The OSIRIS-REx mission to be launched later in 2016 was selected under NASA’s New Frontiers programme. It will perform detailed...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... to an entire subfield in the study of planetary prebiotic compounds. JAXA’s current Hayabusa2 mission at Ryugu and NASA’s OSIRIS-REx at Bennu will return precious samples of these two enormous carbonaceous chondrites, allowing us to study how these...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
... properties of the NEA called Bennu. These results helped NASA select Bennu as the target for the OSIRIS-REx mission, which landed on Bennu in 2018 and will return an asteroid sample to Earth in 2023. In 2020, an international team...
October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
... occurrence of rare-earth metals both in lunar craters and on near-Earth asteroids is proven. In 2023, when the OSIRIS-Rex space probe, launched by NASA in September 2016, returns surface samples of the asteroid Bennu, it will become clear...
03 January 2017
What did 2016 do for us?
... (ExoMars), but lost sight of its lander, JUNO arrived at Jupiter and sent some images back, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft jetted off towards Bennu and Philae’s final resting place was found shortly before Rosetta...
