totm oct 2023 NASA's OSIRIS-REx

[SunlitZelkova]

Are there any plans to live stream the reentry and recovery? (by anyone, not just NASA)

[IonStorm]

7 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said:

Are there any plans to live stream the reentry and recovery? (by anyone, not just NASA)

There will be.  The Sample Return Capsule (SRC) will land in the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR)/Dugway Proving Ground, which is part of a military base, so there are restrictions.  We will be planning the public engagement events to determine how to best share the experience.  Landing at UTTR is necessary as it is a very large open space with enormous restricted airspace and the best radar coverage in the world to enable tracking of the SRC and ensure that it doesn't accidentally cause injury or property damage when it lands.  

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It will be similar to the landing of the Stardust SRC in 2006, except during daylight and with higher resolution cameras.

 

[HebaruSan]

44 minutes ago, IonStorm said:

The Sample Return Capsule (SRC) will land in the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR)/Dugway Proving Ground

I love how you (plural?) can just casually note nearly the exact spot where a tiny capsule will land on a rotating body from interplanetary space, years ahead of time. 

[IonStorm]

41 minutes ago, HebaruSan said:

I love how you (plural?) can just casually note nearly the exact spot where a tiny capsule will land on a rotating body from interplanetary space, years ahead of time. 

It's just like landing at Kerbal Space Center, almost.  Flight Dynamics must be using the Precise Node mod 

[StrandedonEarth]

37 minutes ago, IonStorm said:

It's just like landing at Kerbal Space Center, almost.  Flight Dynamics must be using the Precise Node mod 

And a very high-fidelity version of the Trajectories mod

[IonStorm]

On August 9 and 11, 2021, the video produced at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, will be featured in the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival Electronic Theater – a high honor for those in the graphic visualization field.  Here is a making of, you might enjoy.

 

[tater]

 

[IonStorm]

40 minutes ago, tater said:

 

Here is the paper and the graphics from the teleconference. 

 

[insert_name]

Mission extension confirmed, going to Apophis in 2029!

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-extends-exploration-for-8-planetary-science-missions

Edited April 26, 2022 by insert_name

[IonStorm]

20 minutes ago, insert_name said:

Mission extension confirmed, going to Apophis in 2029!

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-extends-exploration-for-8-planetary-science-missions

Here's a little more detail:  https://news.arizona.edu/story/nasa-gives-green-light-osiris-rex-spacecraft-visit-another-asteroid

As you know, once you go through the tremendous effort to get something into space you should use it as much a you can.  The spacecraft is healthy and has enough ∆V to do more science after the sample is delivered to Earth for study.  

[StrandedonEarth]

19 minutes ago, IonStorm said:

Here's a little more detail:  https://news.arizona.edu/story/nasa-gives-green-light-osiris-rex-spacecraft-visit-another-asteroid

As you know, once you go through the tremendous effort to get something into space you should use it as much a you can.  The spacecraft is healthy and has enough ∆V to do more science after the sample is delivered to Earth for study.  

Interesting, so it won't make rendezvous until after the close approach. While looking for that flyby speed, I found a 2013 paper on the possibility of a manned visit at that time, but i guess there was no will (or budget) to do that.

https://iaaspace.org/wp-content/uploads/iaa/Scientific Activity/conf/pdc2013/IAA-PDC13-04-20.pdf

[IonStorm]

20 minutes ago, StrandedonEarth said:

Interesting, so it won't make rendezvous until after the close approach. While looking for that flyby speed, I found a 2013 paper on the possibility of a manned visit at that time, but i guess there was no will (or budget) to do that.

https://iaaspace.org/wp-content/uploads/iaa/Scientific Activity/conf/pdc2013/IAA-PDC13-04-20.pdf

A potentially hazardous object would have a low ∆V from Earth for encounter.  But it would still be a very challenging mission for humans. 

[HebaruSan]

Neat new animations from NASA highlighting the surprisingly weak surface:

Takeaways:

• The models suggested "cohesion" would hold the rubble together, but it was essentially absent
• "With a puff of gas and an engine burn, OSIRIS-REx had displaced twelve cubic meters of granular material, six tons of loose rock that may have been packed together as lightly as a bowl of popcorn."

Edited July 7, 2022 by HebaruSan

[IonStorm]

Do you want 3D files of Bennu for yourself? How about the sampling site before and after it was thrashed by the spacecraft? Well they are all here for the taking. All with the highest resolution data in existence. How about global mosaics? Got those too. 
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5069

Edited February 18, 2023 by IonStorm

[cubinator]

12 hours ago, IonStorm said:

Do you want 3D files of Bennu for yourself? How about the sampling site before and after it was thrashed by the spacecraft? Well they are all here for the taking. All with the highest resolution data in existence. How about global mosaics? Got those too. 
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5069

Hmm...my print volume is not large enough to print this at 1:1 scale.

[IonStorm]

[tater]

1 hour ago, IonStorm said:

Checked USPS, didn't see it... real thing to go with the Webb stamp? I don't even use stamps, but I'll buy some OSIRIS-REx sheets for our xmas cards (I'll tell my wife this design is super festive).

[IonStorm]

2 minutes ago, tater said:

Checked USPS, didn't see it... real thing to go with the Webb stamp? I don't even use stamps, but I'll buy some OSIRIS-REx sheets for our xmas cards (I'll tell my wife this design is super festive).

It was announced today https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2023/0314-usps-updates-2023-stamp-program.htm 

[tater]

 

[tater]

This needs a bump to present given the return date. Exciting!

Wow, and briefing about to go live:

 

[MarkoeZ]

Crawled out from under my rock to wish @IonStorm and team best of luck coming landing!
 

[IonStorm]

7 hours ago, tater said:

This needs a bump to present given the return date. Exciting!

Wow, and briefing about to go live:

 

Thanks for the bump. The hangar where the briefing happened was hot.  Though not nearly as hot as it was during the recovery rehearsal last month (41°C); I'm at 17:46 in the video and in the back of the audience during the briefing :) 

Lots more videos at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/Gallery/OSIRIS-REx.html 

[IonStorm]

I just saw this amazing KSP recreation of the mission to date.

 

[tater]

Almost home!

 

[AloE]

On 9/11/2023 at 7:08 PM, tater said:

Almost home!

Useful current "OSIRIS-REx Sample Return" links

https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/tag/sample-return/ https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_osiris_rex Link for the scheduled Sept. 24 NASA live stream (I'm one of the 40 'waiting' so far, so can you ;-): :-)  Fantastic 1st mission...looking forward to re-entry and future photos of asteroid Apophis from the extended mission OSIRIS-APEX (OSIRIS-Apophis Explorer)!