Sunday, October 25, 2020

Too much of Bennu?

 

Last week, the OSIRIS-REx mission performed its sample collection maneuver on asteroid Bennu.

It worked great.   Really great.

Actually, more than great.  It worked so great that the collector may have collected too much Bennu material.  So now the mission controllers are in the process of figuring out the best way to stow the sample without losing too much of it.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Collects Significant Amount of Asteroid 


The moment of collection




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