NASA’s project OSIRIS-Rex stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer. Aim: To travel to a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu and bring a small sample back to Earth for study. Launched in 2016. It was the first U.S. mission to successfully collect a sample from an asteroid. Duration: The mission is essentially a seven-year-long. The mission …
Asteroids Asteroids are small, airless rocky worlds revolving around the sun that are too small to be called planets. They are also known as planetoids or minor planets. In total, the mass of all the asteroids is less than that of Earth’s moon. But despite their size, asteroids can be dangerous. Many have hit Earth …
Space Junk (Kessler Syndrome): More than 5 decades of human space exploration since the first Soviet-launched Sputnik satellite in 1957 has produced a hazardous belt of orbiting debris in the space. There are estimated to be more than 100 million pieces circling our planet in the lower orbit, posing a growing threat to future space …