S26E72: Universal Evaporation // A Pile of Rubble // Trouble Plagued Starliner & Other Space News
SpaceTime with Stuart Gary
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The OSIRIS-REx Mission to Bennu
The OSIRIS-REx mission arrived at Bennu on December 3, 2018 following a T-year journey. It orbited the asteroid and mapped Bennu's surface in great detail seeking out potential sample collection sites. Analysis from orbit allowed calculations of Bennu's mass and its distribution. In October 2020, OSIRis-REx successfully touched down on the surface of Bennu and then collected a sample using an extendable robotic arm that was meant to be a simple touching-go manoeuvre. However, unexpectedly, the lack of any real surface cohesion meant the arm and the spacecraft itself for that matter experienced no resistance at the surface. If the probe hadn't been pre-program
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