NASA spacecraft begins 2-year trip home with asteroid rubble
3 years, 7 months ago

NASA spacecraft begins 2-year trip home with asteroid rubble

India TV News  

With rubble from an asteroid tucked inside, a NASA spacecraft fired its engines and began the long journey back to Earth on Monday, leaving the ancient space rock in its rearview mirror. Osiris-Rex reached asteroid Bennu in 2018 and spent two years flying near and around it, before collecting rubble from the surface last fall. “I've been working on getting a sample back from an asteroid since my daughter was in diapers and now she's graduating from high school, so it's been a long journey,” said NASA project scientist Jason Dworkin. Colorado-based flight controllers for spacecraft builder Lockheed Martin applauded when confirmation arrived of the spacecraft's departure: “We're bringing the samples home!” Scientists hope to uncover some of the solar system's secrets from the samples vacuumed last October from Bennu's dark, rough, carbon-rich surface.

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NASA spacecraft launched to mysterious and rare metal asteroid in first mission of its kind
1 year, 2 months ago

NASA spacecraft launched to mysterious and rare metal asteroid in first mission of its kind

The Hindu  

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft rocketed away Friday on a six-year journey to a rare metal-covered asteroid. Added Arizona State University's Jim Bell, part of the Psyche team: “What a great ride so far.” An hour later, the spacecraft separated successfully from the rocket's upper stage and floated away, drawing applause from ground controllers. “But there’s one way in our solar system …

NASA sends Psyche spacecraft on a six-year journey towards a rare metal-covered asteroid
1 year, 2 months ago

NASA sends Psyche spacecraft on a six-year journey towards a rare metal-covered asteroid

Hindustan Times  

NASA has launched its first one-of-a-kind mission where a spacecraft ‘Psyche’ has been sent on a six-year journey towards a rare metal-covered asteroid with the same name. This is to find out whether the asteroid is the exposed core of an early planetary building block from the beginning of the solar system. The spacecraft will travel about 2.2 billion miles …

NASA spacecraft launched to mysterious, metallic asteroid in first mission of its kind
1 year, 2 months ago

NASA spacecraft launched to mysterious, metallic asteroid in first mission of its kind

LA Times  

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Friday. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft rocketed away from Earth on Friday on a six-year journey to a rare metal-covered asteroid. “But there’s one way in our solar system that we can look at a metal core and that is by going to this asteroid.” Astronomers know from …

NASA sends spacecraft to explore mysterious, rare metal asteroid in 1st mission of its kind | Here are DETAILS
1 year, 2 months ago

NASA sends spacecraft to explore mysterious, rare metal asteroid in 1st mission of its kind | Here are DETAILS

India TV News  

NASA Psyche mission: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Psyche spacecraft rocketed away today on a six-year journey to a rare metal-covered asteroid. “But there's one way in our solar system that we can look at a metal core and that is by going to this asteroid.” Astronomers know from radar and other observations that the asteroid is big- about …

NASA shows off its first asteroid samples delivered by a spacecraft
1 year, 2 months ago

NASA shows off its first asteroid samples delivered by a spacecraft

The Hindu  

NASA on Wednesday showed off its first asteroid samples delivered last month by a spacecraft — a jumble of black dust and rubble that's the most ever returned to Earth. NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft collected the samples three years ago from the surface of Bennu and then dropped them off sealed in a capsule during a flyby of Earth last month. …

NASA reveals first asteroid samples delivered by Osiris-Rex spacecraft
1 year, 2 months ago

NASA reveals first asteroid samples delivered by Osiris-Rex spacecraft

India TV News  

In a significant scientific milestone, NASA presented the first asteroid samples collected and delivered by its Osiris-Rex spacecraft. The main sample chamber remains unopened, leaving scientists uncertain about the exact quantity of material gathered from the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu, located nearly 60 million miles away. Locked laboratory and protective gear The asteroid samples were displayed only through photos and videos, …

NASA to unveil first newly returned near-Earth asteroid sample
1 year, 2 months ago

NASA to unveil first newly returned near-Earth asteroid sample

Hindustan Times  

NASA was set on Wednesday to provide a first peek for the public at what scientists found inside a tightly sealed canister that was returned to Earth last month carrying the largest soil sample ever scooped up from the surface of an asteroid. The material collected by the OSRIS-REx spacecraft three years ago from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu was to …

NASA shows off its first asteroid samples delivered by a spacecraft
1 year, 2 months ago

NASA shows off its first asteroid samples delivered by a spacecraft

LA Times  

Ancient black dust from asteroid Bennu is visible outside the OSIRIS-REx sample collector, with more material inside. NASA on Wednesday showed off its first asteroid samples delivered last month by a spacecraft — a jumble of black dust and rubble that’s the most ever returned to Earth. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected the samples three years ago from the surface of …

Asteroid Bennu may reveal secrets of life on Earth. Its sample in NASA capsule will have…
1 year, 3 months ago

Asteroid Bennu may reveal secrets of life on Earth. Its sample in NASA capsule will have…

Hindustan Times  

After seven years of expedition and logging over 6.2 billion km, mothership Osiris-Rex has succesfully delivered rubble from an asteroid, Bennu, situated at such a distance from Earth that it is believed to come ‘dagerously close’ to the planet by next century which may lead to a possible collision. Undated image provided by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu seen from …

NASA's first asteroid samples land on Earth in stunning live video after release from spacecraft - SEVEN years after $1Billion OSIRIS-REx launch
1 year, 3 months ago

NASA's first asteroid samples land on Earth in stunning live video after release from spacecraft - SEVEN years after $1Billion OSIRIS-REx launch

Daily Mail  

NASA scientists screamed in delight as they watched a parachute deliver their first samples of material from a world beyond the Moon. The capsule came to a rest in the Utah desert on Sunday morning after being dropped by parachute NASA scientists had to the test the nearby air and soil for extra-terrestrial contaminants before touching the capsule ‘The biggest …

All about asteroid Bennu, a ticking n-bomb that could destroy Earth and NASA's mission to prevent it
1 year, 3 months ago

All about asteroid Bennu, a ticking n-bomb that could destroy Earth and NASA's mission to prevent it

Hindustan Times  

Asteroid Bennu, named after an ancient Egyptian mythological bird, that is associated with the Sun, creation and rebirth has been predicted to hit the Earth by NASA. The ticking n-bomb Bennu According to scientists, Bennu which is taller than the Empire State Building and 510 meters wide- could release 1,2000 megatons of energy if it hit Earth, i.e. NASA states …

NASA effort to bring home asteroid rocks will end this weekend in triumph or a crash
1 year, 3 months ago

NASA effort to bring home asteroid rocks will end this weekend in triumph or a crash

NPR  

NASA effort to bring home asteroid rocks will end this weekend in triumph or a crash Enlarge this image toggle caption NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona If all goes as planned, on Sunday morning a bell-shaped space capsule the size of a mini-fridge will come screaming down through the atmosphere toward a Utah desert. That moment "was gut-wrenching," says …

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission set for historic asteroid Bennu sample return next week
1 year, 3 months ago

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission set for historic asteroid Bennu sample return next week

Hindustan Times  

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is set to create history on September 24, 2023, by bringing back samples from the asteroid Bennu after spending seven years in deep space. Asteroid Bennu is a potentially hazardous, near-Earth space rock that has a nearly 1 in 1,800 chance of colliding with Earth in the next 300 years. What is NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission Launched in …

Scientists ‘surprised’ to find that Sun ages some asteroids much sooner than earlier thought
2 years, 4 months ago

Scientists ‘surprised’ to find that Sun ages some asteroids much sooner than earlier thought

The Independent  

“Surprised” scientists have discovered that the Sun’s heat likely fractures rocks on asteroid Bennu in only 10,000-100,000 years, an advance suggesting space rocks age more rapidly than earlier thought. High-resolution images of rock fractures on asteroid Bennu taken by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft were analysed by researchers, said the study, published recently in the journal Nature Geoscience. Using data from the …

Science for All | The strange surface of asteroid Bennu
2 years, 5 months ago

Science for All | The strange surface of asteroid Bennu

The Hindu  

This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! NASA’s space mission to study asteroid Bennu could have ended in disaster if it did not leave immediately after collecting samples from its surface in October 2020. The space organisation has revealed its findings after analysing the …

Nasa scientists learn more about asteroid Bennu’s future orbit
3 years, 4 months ago

Nasa scientists learn more about asteroid Bennu’s future orbit

Live Mint  

In a study released this week, researchers at Nasa used precision-tracking data from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to better understand movements of the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu through the year 2300. “NASA’s Planetary Defense mission is to find and monitor asteroids and comets that can come near Earth and may pose a hazard to our planet,” said Kelly Fast, program manager …

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft way back to Earth with asteroid sample
3 years, 7 months ago

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft way back to Earth with asteroid sample

India TV News  

After nearly five years in space, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer 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. This burn thrust the spacecraft away from the asteroid at 600 miles per hour, setting it on a 2.5-year cruise …

NASA spacecraft begins 2-year trip home with asteroid rubble
3 years, 7 months ago

NASA spacecraft begins 2-year trip home with asteroid rubble

Associated Press  

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — With rubble from an asteroid tucked inside, a NASA spacecraft fired its engines and began the long journey back to Earth on Monday, leaving the ancient space rock in its rearview mirror. Osiris-Rex reached asteroid Bennu in 2018 and spent two years flying near and around it, before collecting rubble from the surface last fall. “I’ve …

NASA's Osirix-Red Spacecraft Left a Mess on Asteroid Bennu While Trying to Collect Samples
3 years, 8 months ago

NASA's Osirix-Red Spacecraft Left a Mess on Asteroid Bennu While Trying to Collect Samples

News 18  

A NASA spacecraft left a mess at an asteroid when it grabbed a load of rubble last year for return to Earth, new pictures revealed Thursday. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft made one final flyby of asteroid Bennu on April 7 to take photos of the disturbance left by October’s sample collection. Osiris-Rex will depart Bennu’s vicinity next month and head back …

NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft leaves mess after grabbing asteroid samples
3 years, 8 months ago

NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft leaves mess after grabbing asteroid samples

India TV News  

A National Aeronautics and Space Administration spacecraft left a mess at an asteroid when it grabbed a load of rubble last year for return to Earth, new pictures revealed on Thursday. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made one final flyby of asteroid Bennu on April 7 to take photos of the disturbance left by October's sample collection. Osiris-Rex will depart Bennu's vicinity …

NASA Spacecraft Left a Mess After Grabbing Asteroid Samples Before Returning to Earth
3 years, 8 months ago

NASA Spacecraft Left a Mess After Grabbing Asteroid Samples Before Returning to Earth

News 18  

A NASA spacecraft left a mess at an asteroid when it grabbed a load of rubble last year for return to Earth, new pictures revealed Thursday. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft made one final flyby of asteroid Bennu on April 7 to take photos of the disturbance left by October’s sample collection. Osiris-Rex will depart Bennu”s vicinity next month and head back …

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Probe Prepares For Final Flyby of Asteroid Bennu Before Returning to Earth
3 years, 8 months ago

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Probe Prepares For Final Flyby of Asteroid Bennu Before Returning to Earth

News 18  

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will get one last close encounter with Bennu on April 7 as it performs a final flyover to capture images of the asteroid’s surface. This final flyby of Bennu will provide the mission team an opportunity to learn how the spacecraft’s contact with Bennu’s surface altered the sample site and the region surrounding it. The spacecraft will …

NASA begins assembling spacecraft bound for metal-rich asteroid Psyche
3 years, 8 months ago

NASA begins assembling spacecraft bound for metal-rich asteroid Psyche

Firstpost  

Scientists think it is composed mainly of iron and nickel and the spacecraft is supposed to launch by August 2022. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has started assembling the major components of the Psyche spacecraft which will explore the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Arizona State University’s Lindy Elkins-Tanton, who is the principal investigator leading the Psyche …

NASA mission will zoom by asteroid Bennu before returning sample to Earth
3 years, 10 months ago

NASA mission will zoom by asteroid Bennu before returning sample to Earth

CNN  

CNN — A NASA spacecraft that took a sample from an asteroid 200 million miles away now has a plan to come back home. On May 10, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will leave the near-Earth asteroid Bennu and begin a nearly three-year journey back to Earth, NASA officials announced this week. In April, the spacecraft will conduct a final flyby of …

Hubble scans $10,000 quadrillion 16 Psyche asteroid ahead of NASA 2022 mission
4 years, 1 month ago

Hubble scans $10,000 quadrillion 16 Psyche asteroid ahead of NASA 2022 mission

Firstpost  

The spacecraft is slated to launch in August 2022, perform a Mars-assisted gravity boost in 2023, and arrive at 16 Psyche in 2026. Scientists believe that the asteroid 16 Psyche is the core of a protoplanet that was smashed apart some billion years ago. The primary target of the Psyche mission, the Psyche spacecraft will launch in August 2022 and …

NASA's Osiris-Rex tucks asteroid samples into capsule for return to Earth
4 years, 1 month ago

NASA's Osiris-Rex tucks asteroid samples into capsule for return to Earth

The Hindu  

A NASA spacecraft tucked more than two kilograms of asteroid samples into a capsule for return to Earth after losing some of its precious loot because of a jammed lid, scientists said Thursday. “We’ve still got a lot of work to do” to get the samples back safely, said lead scientist Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona. But tens …

Psyche, an asteroid believed to be worth $10,000 quadrillion, is observed through Hubble Telescope in new study
4 years, 1 month ago

Psyche, an asteroid believed to be worth $10,000 quadrillion, is observed through Hubble Telescope in new study

CNN  

CNN — A rare metallic asteroid about three times farther away from the sun than our planet could yield secrets about Earth’s molten core, and scientists want to learn all about it. The importance of studying Psyche Studying Psyche could help us better understand those early times in the history of our solar system, when objects would have had “higher …

NASA Confirms That Osiris-Rex Probe Successfully Scooped Up Sample From Asteroid Bennu
4 years, 1 month ago

NASA Confirms That Osiris-Rex Probe Successfully Scooped Up Sample From Asteroid Bennu

News 18  

NASA said Thursday its robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex was able to stow a rock and dust sample scooped up from the asteroid Bennu, after a flap that had wedged open put the mission at risk. On Thursday, NASA said it had been able a day earlier to maneuver the robotic arm holding the leaking particles to a storage capsule near the …

NASA Discovers Rare Metal Asteroid in Our Solar System and It's Worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000
4 years, 1 month ago

NASA Discovers Rare Metal Asteroid in Our Solar System and It's Worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000

News 18  

Ever since the space race heated up 50 years ago, colonizing other bodies in our solar system and beyond has been the underlying vision for humans to find permanent settlements in space. In one such discovery, a rare and highly valuable asteroid called ’16 Psyche’ was discovered by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. According to a study published by the Planetary …

Asteroid Bennu Has Been in Earth's Vicinity for 1.75 Million Years, Reveals New Study
4 years, 1 month ago

Asteroid Bennu Has Been in Earth's Vicinity for 1.75 Million Years, Reveals New Study

News 18  

Asteroid Bennu has been in the news for the past few weeks for NASA’s historic sample collection mission on the space rock. Research has revealed that the asteroid has been in an orbit that brings it astronomically close to our home planet for 1.75 million years. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sent by NASA to collect samples from the asteroid has proved …

Samples of asteroid Bennu are spilling out from NASA's jammed OSIRIS-REx spacecraft
4 years, 1 month ago

Samples of asteroid Bennu are spilling out from NASA's jammed OSIRIS-REx spacecraft

Firstpost  

Bennu was chosen by NASA for its carbon-rich character, thought to have held on to the building blocks of the solar system. A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble from this week’s grab that it’s jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in space, scientists said Friday. Scientists announced the news three days after the spacecraft …

Asteroid samples leaking from jammed NASA spacecraft
4 years, 2 months ago

Asteroid samples leaking from jammed NASA spacecraft

The Hindu  

A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble from this week’s grab that it’s jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in space, scientists said Friday. Scientists announced the news three days after the spacecraft named Osiris-Rex briefly touched asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first attempt at such a mission. The mission’s lead scientist, Dante Lauretta of the University …

Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft
4 years, 2 months ago

Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft

Hindustan Times  

A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble from this week’s grab that it’s jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in space, scientists said Friday. Scientists announced the news three days after the spacecraft named Osiris-Rex briefly touched asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first attempt at such a mission. The mission’s lead scientist, Dante Lauretta, said Tuesday’s operation …

Asteroid Bennu samples spill back into space from jammed Nasa spacecraft OSIRIS-REx
4 years, 2 months ago

Asteroid Bennu samples spill back into space from jammed Nasa spacecraft OSIRIS-REx

India Today  

Nasa spacecraft OSIRIS-REx, that collected sample from a diamond-shaped asteroid Bennu earlier this week, is now stuffed with so much rubble from this week's grab that it's jammed open and precious particles are spilling back out into space, scientists said on Friday. In the "Touch-and-Go" mission carried out on Tuesday, Nasa spacecraft OSIRIS-REx managed to tag asteroid Bennu and collect …

Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft
4 years, 2 months ago

Asteroid samples escaping from jammed NASA spacecraft

LA Times  

A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble from this week’s grab that it’s jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in space, scientists said Friday. Scientists announced the news three days after the spacecraft named Osiris-Rex briefly touched asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first attempt at such a mission. The mission’s lead scientist, Dante Lauretta, said Tuesday’s operation …

NASA spacecraft collects rock samples from asteroid Bennu
4 years, 2 months ago

NASA spacecraft collects rock samples from asteroid Bennu

India TV News  

A NASA spacecraft successfully touched down on the rugged surface of asteroid Bennu on Tuesday, collecting a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring back to Earth, the US space agency said. "This amazing first for NASA demonstrates how an incredible team from across the country came together and persevered through incredible challenges …

NASA spacecraft grabs sample of rocks from asteroid Bennu
4 years, 2 months ago

NASA spacecraft grabs sample of rocks from asteroid Bennu

The Hindu  

A NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home. The minivan-sized OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, extended its 11-foot robotic arm toward a flat patch of gravel near Bennus north pole and plucked the sample of …

NASA's Probe Osiris-Rex 'Kisses' Asteroid Bennu After Four-Year Long Historic Mission
4 years, 2 months ago

NASA's Probe Osiris-Rex 'Kisses' Asteroid Bennu After Four-Year Long Historic Mission

News 18  

After a four-year journey, NASA’s robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex briefly touched down on asteroid Bennu’s boulder-strewn surface on Tuesday to collect rock and dust samples in a precision operation 200 million miles from Earth. “We think we actually might be coming back with a baby picture of what the solar system was like, of what our chemistry was like, billions of …

Nasa's Osiris-Rex probe collects rock sample from asteroid Bennu in historic mission
4 years, 2 months ago

Nasa's Osiris-Rex probe collects rock sample from asteroid Bennu in historic mission

India Today  

Nasa’s robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex briefly touched down on the rocky surface of asteroid Bennu on Tuesday to collect rock and dust samples almost 330 million kilometres from the Earth. Speaking to news agency AFP, Nasa scientist Michelle Thaller said: “We think we actually might be coming back with a baby picture of what the solar system was like, of what …

After two years circling asteroid Bennu, NASA's Osiris-Rex mission to touch down, collect samples
4 years, 2 months ago

After two years circling asteroid Bennu, NASA's Osiris-Rex mission to touch down, collect samples

Firstpost  

While NASA has brought back comet dust and solar wind particles, it’s never attempted to sample one of the nearly 1 million known asteroids lurking in our solar system until now. After almost two years circling an ancient asteroid hundreds of millions of miles away, a NASA spacecraft this week will attempt to descend to the treacherous, boulder-packed surface and …

Nasa spacecraft to 'fist bump' asteroid, bring back rubble for study
4 years, 2 months ago

Nasa spacecraft to 'fist bump' asteroid, bring back rubble for study

India Today  

In a "nail-biting manoeuvre", a Nasa spacecraft will "fist bump" a diamond-shaped asteroid named Bennu. How it'll go #ToBennuAndBack to collect a sample of material: https://t.co/awyeiq0Dqo pic.twitter.com/nqLJppRYIS — NASA October 19, 2020 According to a report in the journal, Nature, Nasa's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will try to scoop at least 60 grams of rock samples from the asteroid Bennu. The report …

NASA Spacecraft to Touch Down on Asteroid Bennu in October to Collect Rock Samples
4 years, 3 months ago

NASA Spacecraft to Touch Down on Asteroid Bennu in October to Collect Rock Samples

News 18  

After a four-year journey, NASA’s robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx will descend to asteroid Bennu’s boulder-strewn surface on October 20, touching down for a few seconds to collect rock and dust samples, the agency said Thursday. “Years of planning and hard work by this team are essentially coming down to putting the TAGSAM into contact with the surface for just five to …

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