May 2026
Focusing the world on planetary defence
... probabilities over the next century. Yet trust in these systems is just as important as their precision. Missions like OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa2 have advanced our ability to sample and understand asteroids, using innovative collection methods rather...
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...
30 June 2017
A line up of global events for Asteroid Day 2017
... ESA's Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme. Further talks are scheduled later in the day by NASA and Osiris-Rex and The Lunar And Planetary Laboratory. In addition to big space agencies, a whole host of individuals from astronauts...
02 January 2018
2017 - What a year!
... for launch in the summer, and after making its closest approach to Earth earlier this year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is on course to rendezvous with near-Earth asteroid Bennu in August. Later in the year, an ambitious, multi-spacecraft...
19 February 2018
TESS arrives in Florida ahead of its April launch
... Servicing Facility (PHSF), the same clean room used by NASA’s Cassini, New Horizons, Mars rovers and OSIRIS-REx missions, to name but a few, before their launches. Once deployed from the Falcon 9, TESS will swing...
09 May 2018
First confirmed carbon-rich asteroid found in Kuiper Belt
.... Carbonaceous or C-type asteroids are the most common type of asteroid – Bennu, the target asteroid for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is one, but like most of this type they typically orbit a lot closer to the Sun. 2004...
