OSIRIS-REx conducted one last trajectory-correcting engine burn on Sunday (Sept. 17).
A training model of the sample return capsule is seen is seen during a drop test in preparation for the retrieval of the sample return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe performed one last trajectory-correcting maneuver on Sunday to set up the Sept. 24 arrival of its asteroid sample here on Earth.fired its thrusters briefly on Sunday, changing the probe's velocity by 7 inches per minute, NASA said. "This final correction maneuver moved the sample capsule's predicted landing location east by nearly 8 miles, or 12.5 kilometers, to the center of its predetermined landing zone inside a 36-mile by 8.5-mile area on the Defense Department's Utah Test and Training Range," agency officials wrote in an
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