03 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx officially arrives at Bennu today
...-REx for short. This complex-sounding, state-of-the-art spacecraft is equipped with seven instruments and devices to study, then sample this potentially hazardous object. Bennu is possibly a fragment of a once much larger object from the...
21 October 2020
OSIRIS-REx successfully touches asteroid Bennu
... time the spacecraft extended its 3.35 metre (11-foot) sampling arm, known as the Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM), in preparation of the sample acquisition at a collection site known as “Nightingale.” Nightingale is a moderately...
