Malin Space Science Systems, Inc. (MSSS), has delivered the camera system it produced for NASA’s 2016 OSIRIS-REx mission to return a sample of the asteroid Bennu. This system, collectively called the ...
The OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, has collected as much as several hundred grams of asteroid material, which could help scientists understand the earliest stages of the Solar System. The ...
After 20 years of planning, building, launching, and waiting, NASA finally accessed the last of the Bennu asteroid sample from the OSIRIS-REx sample retrieval mission, which returned to Earth this ...
John Bridges receives funding from STFC. What is your idea of an asteroid? Many people think of them as potato-shaped, inert and perhaps rather dull, pock-marked objects – far away in deep space. But ...