OSIRIS-REx, one of NASA’s robotic spacecraft, is set to drops off a package in the American desert Sunday grabbed from one of the rare asteroids made of the same thing Earth is
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 in preparation for the retrieval of the actual capsule on Sunday.OSIRIS-REx, a NASA robotic spacecraft, is set to drop off a package in the American desert Sunday collected from one of the rare asteroids that are mostly made of carbon, the element that allowed the development of life on Earth.
Most of the time when samples come back through the atmosphere, they’re burned up. Getting a pristine sample of what that looks like in space is really going to help us understand what else is out there and maybe where we came from. It’s just very exciting.IRVINE: It started in 2011 with an announcement of opportunity sent out by NASA so teams at the University of Arizona, Lockheed and Goddard came together and said we’d like to sample a C-type asteroid .
IRVINE: The navigation team is phenomenal. We have done some adjustment maneuvers to make sure we’re lined up where we need to be. We have an where we think it will land. This is a team that took a spacecraft and was able to hit dead on this point on an asteroid, so I’m pretty sure we can hit the spot in the desert, too.
IRVINE: I think there’s benefits to both. Human spaceflight gives us eyes on the grounds, hands on the ground, everything else. The upside to smaller robotic, autonomous spacecraft is it can scan and operate give us data all day long. It doesn’t need rest. It’s also cheaper and smaller to fly, to launch and operate. The downside is we’re limited to the instrumentation we put onboard. We can’t really deviate from that. We’d have to do software updates and things like that.
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