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    NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrives at asteroid Bennu

    December 5, 2018, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    This image of Bennu was taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a distance of around 50 miles (80 km). Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

    This image of Bennu was taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a distance of around 50 miles (80 km).
    Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

    NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft completed its 1.2 billion-mile (2 billion-kilometer) journey to arrive at the asteroid Bennu Monday. The spacecraft executed a maneuver that transitioned it from flying toward Bennu to operating around the asteroid.

    Now, at about 11.8 miles (19 kilometers) from Bennu’s Sun-facing surface, OSIRIS-REx will begin a preliminary survey of the asteroid. The spacecraft will commence flyovers of Bennu’s north pole, equatorial region, and south pole, getting as close as nearly 4 miles (7 kilometers) above Bennu during each flyover.

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    NASA’s OSIRIS-REx begins Asteroid operations campaign

    August 26, 2018, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    On Aug. 17, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft obtained the first images of its target asteroid Bennu from a distance of 1.4 million miles (2.2 million km), or almost six times the distance between the Earth and Moon. This cropped set of five images was obtained by the PolyCam camera over the course of an hour for calibration purposes and in order to assist the mission's navigation team with optical navigation efforts. Bennu is visible as a moving object against the stars in the constellation Serpens. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

    On Aug. 17, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft obtained the first images of its target asteroid Bennu from a distance of 1.4 million miles (2.2 million km), or almost six times the distance between the Earth and Moon. This cropped set of five images was obtained by the PolyCam camera over the course of an hour for calibration purposes and in order to assist the mission’s navigation team with optical navigation efforts. Bennu is visible as a moving object against the stars in the constellation Serpens.
    Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

    After an almost two-year journey, NASA’s asteroid sampling spacecraft, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx), caught its first glimpse of asteroid Bennu last week and began the final approach tow...

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    NASA’S OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Slingshots past Earth

    September 24, 2017, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    This artist's concept shows the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft passing by Earth. Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Arizona.

    This artist’s concept shows the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft passing by Earth. Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Arizona.

    NASA’s asteroid sample return spacecraft successfully used Earth’s gravity on Friday to slingshot itself on a path toward the asteroid Bennu, for a rendezvous next August. At 12:52 p.m. EDT on Sept. 22, the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) spacecraft came within 10,711 miles (17,237 km) of Antarctica, just south of Cape Horn, Chile, before following a route north over the Pacific Ocean.

    OSIRIS-REx launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Sept. 8, 2016, on an Atlas V 411 rocket...

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    NASA’s OSIRIS-REx takes its first image of Jupiter

    February 16, 2017, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    This image was taken at 3:38 a.m. EST on Feb. 9, 2017, when the spacecraft was 75 million miles (120 million kilometers) from Earth and 419 million miles (675 million kilometers) from Jupiter. With an exposure time of two seconds, the image renders Jupiter overexposed, but allows for enhanced detection of stars in the background. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

    This image was taken at 3:38 a.m. EST on Feb. 9, 2017, when the spacecraft was 75 million miles from Earth and 419 million miles from Jupiter. With an exposure time of two seconds, the image renders Jupiter overexposed, but allows for enhanced detection of stars in the background. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

    This magnified, cropped image showing Jupiter and 3 of its moons was taken by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s MapCam instrument during optical navigation testing for the mission’s Earth-Trojan Asteroid Search. The image shows Jupiter in the center, the moon Callisto to the left and the moons Io and Europa to the right. Ganymede, Jupiter’s fourth moon, is also present in the image, but is not visible as it is crossing in front of the planet.

    The image was taken at 3:38 a...

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