Tag: Osiris-REx

NASA Counting Down to Asteroid Mission Launch on Thursday Evening
By 2016.09.07 0 Comments Read More →

NASA Counting Down to Asteroid Mission Launch on Thursday Evening

NASA’s Science Mission Directorate is counting down to the launch of yet another ground breaking (in this case, literally) spacecraft, from Cape Canaveral. Flying aboard the ever-reliable ULA Atlas-V in its 411 configuration, the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security – Regolith Explorer, or Osiris-REx, will journey to the Near Earth asteroid Bennu, where it will collect and […]

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NASA’s Space Launch System Faces Possible 2017 Launch Delay, ARM Target Issues
By 2014.08.12 0 Comments Read More →

NASA’s Space Launch System Faces Possible 2017 Launch Delay, ARM Target Issues

A series of reports highlight the challenges NASA faces in making progress with its plans for the Space Launch System over the next ten years.  Only days days before SLS program manager Todd May told an audience at the annual Mars Society convention that the mega booster is still on track for a late 2017 […]

Posted in: Asteroids, NASA, SLS / Orion
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