OSIRIS-REx is Heading for Home in May

OSIRIS-REx is Heading for Home in May
By Nancy Atkinson

The OSIRIS-REx team decided to delay the spacecraft’s departure from asteroid Bennu for two months. The departure window opens in March 2021, and the original plan had OSIRIS-REx setting course for Earth on March 3, to bring home the asteroid samples it collected last October. Now, a revised timeline has the spacecraft leaving Bennu on …

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January 28, 2021 at 10:01PM
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