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The high gain antenna and solar arrays were installed on the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft prior to it moving to environmental testing. Credits: Lockheed Martin Corporation
OSIRIS-Rex, the first American spacecraft ever aimed at snatching pristine samples from the surface of an asteroid and returning them to Earth for exquisite analysis by researchers world-wide with the most advanced science instruments has successfully completed its assembly phase and moved into the “test drive” phase – just ten months before blastoff, following installation of all its science instruments at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilities, near Denver, Colorado.
The launch window for OSIRIS-REx opens next fall on September 3, 2016 on a seven-year journey to Bennu and back. Bennu is a (…)
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Post tags: Asteroid Bennu, asteroid sample return, Asteroids, Atlas V rocket, Bennu, cape canaveral, KSC, Lockheed Martin, NASA, OCAMS, OSIRIS-REx, sample return, SLC-41, ULA
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