09 September 2016
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on its way to study Bennu after successful launch Thursday
... amount of collected material can be anywhere between 60 grams and 2 kilograms of dust and rock. After depositing the sample into a return canister, OSIRIS-REx will leave Bennu and head back for Earth, scheduled to return...
16 January 2019
China unveils future space plans
...in the Mons Rumker region of Oceanus Procellarum, and return a 2 kilogram sample of lunar regolith, possibly from as deep as 2 metres. It is... of the Moon. According to Wu, Chang'e-6 will return samples from the Moon’s south pole, while Chang’e 7 will...
21 February 2019
Hayabusa2 starts descent towards Ryugu
...by the onboard sampler horn. Hayabusa2 will hold onto any samples it manages to collect and return them to Earth in...and the organic material necessary for life to start. These samples will be crucial in investigating this possibility." The latest ...
16 March 2020
Porous nature of Ryugu suggests formation from fluffy particles, new study says
... survive entry through Earth’s atmosphere very well, it is hard to say with 100 percent certainty. Collecting an actual sample from a c-type asteroid in-situ would certainly go a long way to understanding more about planetary formation processes and...
