Tag: Asteroid Bound Spacecraft

NASA's asteroid-bound spacecraft flies by Earth

Washington: NASA’s asteroid sample return spacecraft flew past Earth on Friday on its way to asteroid Bennu, for a rendezvous next August. The OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) spacecraft came within 17,237 km of Antarctica at 12.52 pm EDT (10. 22 pm India time) on Friday, just south of […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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