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La sonde Osiris-Rex repartira des alentours de l'astéroïde Bennu en mars 2021, avec un atterrissage de la capsule prévu le 24 septembre 2023 dans le désert de l'Utah aux Etats-Unis (archives).
In February, the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx will begin a search for Trojan asteroids—unique asteroids that share Earth’s orbit. The search will take place over a period of 10-12 days and will be ...
More information: Daniella N. DellaGiustina et al, OSIRIS-APEX: An OSIRIS-REx Extended Mission to Asteroid Apophis, The Planetary Science Journal (2023). DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/acf75e ...
OSIRIS-REx managed to bring back about 121 grams (4.3 ounces) . Five grams of asteroid bits were enough to yield some exciting results, though, which foreshadows what 121 grams of asteroid bits ...
At 2:43 p.m. EST on December 31, while many on Earth prepared to welcome the New Year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) away, carried out a single, eight ...
On Oct. 31, officials with the University of Arizona said the mission has been extended by NASA, with the new name OSIRIS-APEX. The name stands for "Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource ...
Scientists confirm OSIRIS-REx brought home at least 70.3 grams of material from asteroid Bennu, surpassing its goal of 60 grams.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft recently dropped off precious cargo — sending a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu tumbling through Earth’s atmosphere to land in the Utah desert.
Asteroid (101955) Bennu in the laboratory: Properties of the sample collected by OSIRIS‐REx. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 2024; DOI: 10.1111/maps.14227 ...
NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission. "The findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest ...
OSIRIS-REx Completed at Lockheed MartinLockheed Martin has completed the assembly of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The spacecraft is now undergoing environmental testing at the company’s Space ...