osiris-rex

Earlier this week OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s asteroid sample return mission, successfully “pushed off” from Bennu to begin it’s thirty month journey home. Project Scientist Jason Dworkin beams back into Trekzone to...

Following the American space agencies successful landing on asteroid Bennu in October last year, the plans for the return voyage of OSIRIS-REx have been announced.

Adjunct Professor David Flannery is our guest this week as we gear up for the return of Hayabusa-2. With the Japanese mission leading NASA's Osiris-REx and Perseverance Rover as well as China's Changy'e 5, what can samples returned from around the solar system tell us?

New research indicates the Milky Way - and other galaxies - experienced a growth spurt and matured in their childhood... we get up close with asteroid Psyche, the iron rich asteroid is the next target of our exploration of the solar systems leftover chunks ... and good news for osiris-rex, the sample hatch is closed and the spacecraft can return to Earth with it's precious cargo intact.