Today’s OSIRIS-REx sample grab from Bennu
The Nightingale landing site on Bennu, with
OSIRIS-REx superimposed. Click for full image.
Spaceflight Now today published a nicely detailed article summarizing the entire OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu, in anticipation of today’s attempt to grab a sample from that asteroid’s surface.
If you want to understand what is happening today, this article does a nice job of outlining everything.
I have embedded the live stream of the sample grab below the fold. It begins at 5 pm (Eastern) today. Be warned that it will show very little of the actual event, as the spacecraft will not be sending much data back to Earth today, during these operations. All we will really find out is if the grab happened, or was aborted to avoid risks, or occurred but the spacecraft was impacted by flying material during the grab. (Let us hope that this last option does not occur.)
The first images and data will not arrive until tomorrow, to be released during a press conference scheduled for 5 pm (Eastern).
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The Nightingale landing site on Bennu, with
OSIRIS-REx superimposed. Click for full image.
Spaceflight Now today published a nicely detailed article summarizing the entire OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu, in anticipation of today’s attempt to grab a sample from that asteroid’s surface.
If you want to understand what is happening today, this article does a nice job of outlining everything.
I have embedded the live stream of the sample grab below the fold. It begins at 5 pm (Eastern) today. Be warned that it will show very little of the actual event, as the spacecraft will not be sending much data back to Earth today, during these operations. All we will really find out is if the grab happened, or was aborted to avoid risks, or occurred but the spacecraft was impacted by flying material during the grab. (Let us hope that this last option does not occur.)
The first images and data will not arrive until tomorrow, to be released during a press conference scheduled for 5 pm (Eastern).
Please consider donating to Behind the Black, by giving either a one-time contribution or a regular subscription, as outlined in the tip jar below. Your support will allow me to continue covering science and culture as I have for the past twenty years, independent and free from any outside influence.
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While the effort is appreciated, why do a live stream if no image or data is received in real-time?
OT: I started watching the feed and within ten seconds, the woman had touched her mask — twice. Safety theater.
Interesting!
oh dear.
That’s the problem with posting a Live Stream. It ends and something replaces it. 0-o. Nice video today 10/21 about terrain avoidance avionics though.
oh oh …..
next live stream to be the Andromeda Strain.