NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid pattern return to Earth: Reside updates

OSIRIS-REx 1 week from asteroid pattern return

NASA is only one week away from the epic touchdown of its OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample-return capsule, which is full of items of the asteroid Bennu. The touchdown, which is on observe for Sept. 24, 2023, will mark the top of OSIRIS-REx’s major 7-year mission that started with a launch in 2016 and sample-collection at Bennu in October 2020. 

Scientists are excited, but additionally on tenterhooks, as they put together for OSIRIS-REx’s return to Earth. The spacecraft will slam into Earth’s environment, protected by a warmth defend, and attain speeds of as much as 27,000 mph earlier than deploying drogue and foremost parachutes to gradual itself to a extra manageable 10 mph. 

As NASA prepares for the OSIRIS-REx touchdown, try our newest protection beneath and keep tuned for day by day updates main as much as the touchdown itself!

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