Artist's concept of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft orbiting the Bennu asteroid. (Image: NASA)

Optical navigation enables sample collection from asteroid

October 20, 2020

NASA took on a Herculean precision positioning task that culminated Oct. 20 with a spacecraft sampling the surface […]

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