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OSIRIS-REx Heads For Earth Concept Image: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft has started its return journey after almost five years in space. The trip is expected to take 2.5 years with OSIRIS-REx currently due to reach Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. As previously reported by AVweb, the spacecraft touched down briefly on asteroid Bennu last October, successfully collecting more than 2 ounces of soil from the surface. “OSIRIS-REx’s many accomplishments demonstrated the daring ...

Homecoming: NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft heads back for Earth with asteroid sample The spacecraft is due to reach Earth on September 24, 2023, after orbiting the Sun twice. Washington: After nearly five years in space, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is on its way back to Earth with an abundance of rocks and dust from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, the US space agency said. The spacecraft is due to reach Earth on September 24, 2023, after orbiting the Sun twice. On Monday, May 10, at 4.23 p.m. EDT, the spa...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Is Racing Back to Earth With a Scoop of Asteroid Illustration: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center OSIRIS-REx, a NASA spacecraft tasked with collecting rocks and dust from a nearby asteroid named Bennu, is coming back home after almost five years away. The spacecraft, officially named Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, officially fired its engines to begin its Earthward journey on May 10. Its return trip will take two and half years. Advertisement Bennu, the asteroid the spacecraft accosted, is a 1,600-foot-wide...

It also helped understand more about its rubble-pile-like consistency and surface terrain. NASA, in a note on its website, says that the asteroid's terrain turned out to be much rockier and more rugged than initially expected from the observations of the ground-based telescope. The spacecraft, which embarked on its return journey on May 10, 2021, is expected to jettison the sealed capsule containing the sample and send it onto a trajectory to touch down in the Utah desert on September 24, 2023. It is carrying more than 60 grams of dust and fragments from the asteroid, the largest sample colle...

Constant Contact Use. By submitting this form, you are consenting to receive marketing emails from: American Astronomical Society, 1667 K Street NW, Washington, DC, 20006, http://aas.org. You can revoke your consent to receive emails at any time by using the SafeUnsubscribe® link, found at the bottom of every email. Emails are serviced by Constant Contact NASA’s asteroid explorer has begun its long journey home with precious cargo onboard: samples of the asteroid Bennu. An artist's illustration shows OSIRIS-REX departing 101955 Bennu. NASA / GSFC It has been worth the wait. After five yea...