OSIRIS-REx: Sample Return from Asteroid (101955) Bennu
| Autor: | Michael C. Nolan, B. H. Bryan, Jason P. Dworkin, Ellen S. Howell, H. C. Connolly, M. K. Crombie, Jay W. McMahon, Kevin J. Walsh, Michael Daly, Scott Messenger, Daniella DellaGiustina, E. B. Bierhaus, Arlin E. Bartels, S. S. Balram-Knutson, Beth E. Clark, Lucy Lim, Carl Hergenrother, William V. Boynton, Ronald-Louis Ballouz, E. C. Beshore, Richard P. Binzel, D. C. Reuter, Daniel J. Scheeres, E. T. Morton, Joseph A. Nuth, Keiko Nakamura-Messenger, Dolan E. Highsmith, Victoria E. Hamilton, Dante S. Lauretta, Kevin Righter, Scott A. Sandford, D. A. Lorenz, H. L. Enos, C. A. Johnson, H. L. Roper, J. P. Emery, William F. Bottke, Amy Simon, Brent J. Bos, D. R. Gholish, Philip R. Christensen, Timothy J. McCoy, C. Drouet d'Aubigny, Olivier S. Barnouin, Bashar Rizk, Michael C. Moreau, S. R. Chesley, Ronald G. Mink |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences biology Spacecraft business.industry Rendezvous New Frontiers program FOS: Physical sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Astrobiology Pluto Expendable launch system Sample return mission Space and Planetary Science Asteroid 0103 physical sciences Osiris business 010303 astronomy & astrophysics Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1702.06981 |
| Popis: | In May of 2011, NASA selected the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) asteroid sample return mission as the third mission in the New Frontiers program. The other two New Frontiers missions are New Horizons, which explored Pluto during a flyby in July 2015 and is on its way for a flyby of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 on Jan. 1, 2019, and Juno, an orbiting mission that is studying the origin, evolution, and internal structure of Jupiter. The spacecraft departed for near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas V 411 evolved expendable launch vehicle at 7:05 p.m. EDT on September 8, 2016, on a seven-year journey to return samples from Bennu. The spacecraft is on an outbound-cruise trajectory that will result in a rendezvous with Bennu in August 2018. The science instruments on the spacecraft will survey Bennu to measure its physical, geological, and chemical properties, and the team will use these data to select a site on the surface to collect at least 60 g of asteroid regolith. The team will also analyze the remote-sensing data to perform a detailed study of the sample site for context, assess Bennus resource potential, refine estimates of its impact probability with Earth, and provide ground-truth data for the extensive astronomical data set collected on this asteroid. The spacecraft will leave Bennu in 2021 and return the sample to the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) on September 24, 2023. Comment: 89 pages, 39 figures, submitted to Space Science Reviews - OSIRIS-REx special issue |
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