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The NASA robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex, to be launched Thursday, will chase down Bennu, and then in 2020 will act like a pogo stick and gather a sample on the surface.
via New York Times
There are advances being made almost daily in the disciplines required to make space and its contents accessible. This blog brings together a lot of that info, as it is reported, tracking the small steps into space that will make it just another place we carry out normal human economic, leisure and living activities.
Monday, 5 September 2016
Osiris-Rex: Chasing Asteroid Bennu
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NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft will hunt down an asteroid and return a sample to Earth.
via New York Times
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft will hunt down an asteroid and return a sample to Earth.
via New York Times
No Longer Missing: Rosetta’s Philae Spacecraft Located on Comet
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Scientists have found the space lander, which disappeared in 2014 after a rough landing on the surface of a comet.
via New York Times
Scientists have found the space lander, which disappeared in 2014 after a rough landing on the surface of a comet.
via New York Times
Philae found!
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Rosetta's Philae lander is revealed in new images of the comet
via ESA Space Science
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Philae_found
Rosetta's Philae lander is revealed in new images of the comet
via ESA Space Science
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Philae_found
Philae found!
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via ESA Space Science
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Philae_found
Less than a month before the end of the mission, Rosetta’s high-resolution camera has revealed the Philae lander wedged into a dark crack on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
via ESA Space Science
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Philae_found
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