NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft canceled its scheduled Sample Mass Measurement activity and a braking burn to minimize any acceleration to the spacecraft to prevent further loss of asteroid samples. @cbauerreich #UJPhysics
Yesterday, the OSIRIS-REx team received images of the spacecraft’s sample collector head brimming with regolith. So much sample was collected that some of it is actually slowly escaping the sampling head. More details: https://t.co/ufUXdotgsO