A training model of the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule is seen during a drop test on Aug. 30, 2023, at the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range. Photo: NASA/Keegan Barber The ...

As a result, the OSIRIS-REx team has had to model the spacecraft’s behavior and check its orbit to an unprecedented degree. Without regular corrections, errors in OSIRIS-REx’s trajectory would ...

A training model of the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule falls during a drop test in August. NASA/Keegan Barber To further guard against this, the team recovering the capsule also took samples of ...

They also used X-rays to create a 3D model of one of the particles to reveal its composition, revealing a “scientific treasure” of carbon and water content, said OSIRIS-REx principal ...

The team applied that ground-based tracking data collected before and during the OSIRIS-REx mission to a probe of extensions of the Standard Model of physics, which describes three of the four ...

Bennu was the target for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission ... After running several scenarios using their model, the researchers found that injecting around 100–400 million tons ...

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Training model of the sample return capsule during ... at a distance of about 67,000 miles (108,000 kilometers) from Earth, the Osiris-Rex probe will release a capsule containing the precious ...

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve and analyze samples from an asteroid. OSIRIS-REx's van-sized ...

After running several scenarios using their model, the researchers found that injecting around 100–400 million tons of dust into the atmosphere would cause dramatic disruptions to the climate ...