From here, OSIRIS-Rex will pull away from the asteroid, redeploy its solar panels as well as a high-gain antenna to transmit initial images and data from the operation then begin a nearly three ...

Its high gain antenna, shrouded in a pale sheet of insulation, looks like some ghostly face. Taken together, ... OSIRIS-REx will map Bennu at very high resolutions, ...

Once OSIRIS-APEX is farther from the Sun in March, the mission team will re-orient the spacecraft to point its high-gain antenna toward Earth to allow for high-speed communication,” a NASA ...

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returning home with asteroid sample. Scientists say that the sample could hold evidence to the origin of life on Earth ...

At long last, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft has delivered an up close and personal view of asteroid Bennu ...

Osiris-Rex will make the briefest of contacts with Asteroid Bennu to try to pick up rock samples. ... Nasa's Osiris-Rex probe aims for daring 'high five' with asteroid Bennu. 19 October 2020 ...

Lauretta named OSIRIS-REx — short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer — after the Egyptian god Osiris. Lauretta often integrates the arts ...

NASA calls it *** cosmic touch and go. When we made contact with the surface, there was *** one second delay and then we fired that high pressure nitrogen gas and the surface just exploded in ...

When Osiris-Rex arrived at Bennu in 2018, the mission team immediately got a fright. Distant telescope and radar observations had suggested the asteroid would have a kind of sandy surface.

An American spacecraft is about to attempt the audacious task of grabbing rock samples from an asteroid. The Osiris-Rex probe will lower itself on to the 500m-wide object known as Bennu to make a ...