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Washington (AFP) - NASA said Thursday its robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex was able to stow a rock and dust sample scooped up from the asteroid Bennu, after a flap that had wedged open put the mission at risk."We are here to announce today that we've successfully completed that operation," said Rich Burns, the mission's project manager.The probe is on a mission to collect fragments that scientists hope will help unravel the origins of our solar system, but hit a snag after it picked up too big of a sample.Fragments from the asteroid's surface in a collector at the end of the probe's three-meter (...
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Washington (AFP) - NASA said Friday that its robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex had succeeded in collecting a large sample of particles from the Bennu asteroid this week -- but so much that it was leaking.The team in charge of the probe is now working to quickly stow the remaining samples that would eventually be delivered back to Earth to provide key scientific insights."A substantial fraction of the required collected mass is seen escaping," mission chief Dante Lauretta said in a phone briefing with journalists.Osiris-Rex is set to come home in September 2023, hopefully with the largest sample re...
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