Engineers pull off daring rescue of OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission
Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - 09:40
in Astronomy & Space
On Friday, Oct. 11, the OSIRIS-REx team should have been preparing to point their spacecraft cameras precisely over the asteroid Bennu to capture high-resolution images of a region known as Osprey. It is one of four sites scientists are considering from which the spacecraft can safely collect a sample in late 2020.