Illustration of the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during a burn of its main engine ( University of Arizona)
The Deep Space Network monitoring data provided preliminary confirmation of the burn's performance, and the lia Subsequent descending ison of telemetry shows that all subsystems have worked as expected. DSM-2 was the last OSIRIS-REx space maneuver for his cruise to Bennu. The next engine combustion, the Asteroid Approach 1 Maneuver (AAM-1), is scheduled for early October. The AAM-1 is a major braking maneuver designed to slow the speed of the spacecraft from approximately 1,130 to 320 mph (506.2 to 144.4 meters per second) per hour. report to Bennu and is the first of four asteroid approach maneuvers planned for this fall. The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, provides overall mission management, systems engineering, and security and mission badurance for OSIRIS-REx. Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona, Tucson, is the principal investigator, and the University of Arizona also directs the scientific team and the planning and processing of observations from the mission
Lockheed Martin Space in Denver builds the spacecraft and provides air operations for the spacecraft. . Goddard and KinetX Aerospace are responsible for navigating the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.
OSIRIS-REx is the third mission of NASA's New Frontiers program. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, runs the agency's New Frontiers program for its Scientific Missions Branch in Washington
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Asteroid, Asteroid Bennu, Denver CO, Greenbelt MD, Huntsville ALS, Lockheed Martin Space, NASA, NASA's Deep Space Network, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA's New Frontiers Program, NASA Science Mission, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, OSIRIS-REx, Tucson AZ, University of Arizona, Washington DC
