Collaborate Disseminate
How long does it take a team of rocket scientists to remove two screws? When the screws they’re working on are keeping a priceless sample of asteroid safe, it’s about …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: January 14, 2024
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule screamed its way through the upper atmosphere, it marked the first time the space agency had brought material from an asteroid back to Earth. …read more Continue reading NASA Blames Probe Chute Failure on Wire Labels
In this week’s episode of “Stupid Chatbot Tricks,” it turns out that jailbreaking ChatGPT is as easy as asking it to repeat a word over and over forever. That’s according …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: December 10, 2023
“As California goes, so goes the nation.” That adage has been true on and off for the last 100 years or so, and it’s true again now that GM’s Cruise …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 29, 2023
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx has begun to pay dividends as the space agency releases the first preliminary results of the sample return mission from the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu, showing the presence of a high carbon content and water – the primary bui… Continue reading OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples hold the building blocks of life
Too much of a good thing is generally a bad thing, but a surfeit of asteroid material is probably a valid exception to that rule. Such was NASA’s plight as …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 8, 2023
After a two-and-a-half-year astral trek and seven years since lift off, asteroid samples from NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer OS(IRIS-REx) have been brought down to Earth.Continue Readin… Continue reading NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission lands safely in Utah
In October 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made history by touching down on the asteroid Bennu and grabbing a sample of rock and debris. New analysis of this encounter has revealed the probe was lucky to avoid sinking into the asteroid’s surface, wh… Continue reading NASA’s asteroid sampler narrowly avoided sinking into surface of Bennu
A history-making NASA spacecraft has just received a new lease on life. OSIRIS-REx, which is currently on its way back to Earth with rock samples from asteroid Bennu, will now have its mission extended to visit another asteroid, Apophis.Continue Readin… Continue reading NASA extends OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission to visit Apophis
NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) robotic deep-space probe is returning from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. On May 10, 2021 at 4:23 pm EDT, the spacecraft began its 2.5-year journ… Continue reading OSIRIS-REx headed back to Earth with “abundance” of asteroid samples