Tag: Osiris Rex Spacecraft

Washington: NASA’s asteriod hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is all set to make a close flyby of Earth on Friday, before reaching asteroid Bennu, media has reported. The Earth’s gravity will fling the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, travelling at a staggering speed of 19,000 miles (30,758 km) per hour, upward by about six degrees so that its trajectory will […]

Washington: NASA on Tuesday said its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is ready to perform an early stow on October 27 of the large sample it collected last week from the surface of the asteroid Bennu to protect and return as much of the sample as possible. On October 22, the OSIRIS-REx mission team received images that showed […]