Osiris REx completed its mission and landed at Dugway test range, Utah.
Osiris REx completed its mission and landed at Dugway test range, Utah.
Osiris REx probe's capsule landed in a military area in Utah. That capsule involved a couple of hundred grams of asteroid material. Osiris rex captured that material from Asteroid Bennu. And the mission took seven years. The Osiris REx samples are the first asteroid samples that are delivered to the high-tech laboratory. That Dugway test range (Officially: Dugway Proving Ground) or Utah military test area probably involves a BL-5 class laboratory that can keep those samples sterile, until researchers can start to investigate them.
And NASA will tell interesting facts about those samples. The Osiris Rex is one of the milestones of the spaceflights. That probe took the samples from Asteroid Bennu to Earth. The probe needed advanced AI and automatic systems to accomplish its missions. And this is one of the most interesting missions after the manned Moon flights. The Osiris REx opened a new dimension for space programs.
"With its main parachute deployed, the sample capsule slowly descends to the Utah desert in this illustration. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab" (ScitechDaily.com/Landing Imminent After Billion-Mile Journey: The Race To Retrieve NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Treasure)
Osiris REx mission took seven years. And that is a long time even on Earth. That means the asteroid colonization and journeys to Jupiter are realistic only for highly independent AI-controlled robot groups. Jupiter's icy moons are dangerous places. Because their ice shell can break without warning. And in the case that there is some kind of lifeforms human astronauts can pollute the ocean.
The journey to Jupiter is so long that humans might leave that thing to robots. The manned missions to other planets require full knowledge of the planet. Things like erupting gas pockets and sandstorms that create static electricity causes problems. Same way. If the ice shell breaks under the base or landing craft that can cause a devastating situation.
The data that this probe gave from asteroids and its internal operations are helping to develop new spacecraft that are more independent. The fact is the manned missions to Jupiter are so dangerous and long-term missions that the things that travel to Jupiter and take samples from its icy moons are robots. During manned missions, the astronauts must spend a long part of their lives in space, and only AI-controlled probes can make that kind of mission. Those probes might carry human-looking robots, but those missions are reserved for highly independent AI-controlled probes.
https://www.space.com/nasa-osiris-rex-success-recovery-asteroid-sample
https://scitechdaily.com/imminent-landing-after-billion-mile-journey-the-race-to-retrieve-nasas-osiris-rex-treasure/
https://scitechdaily.com/countdown-to-history-nasas-osiris-rex-preps-for-epic-asteroid-delivery/
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