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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx has started orbiting asteroid Bennu

On January 1, 2019 by Michelle Turner With 0 Comments - Tech

After NASA's OSIRIS-REx arrived at asteroid Bennu in early December, its ground team quickly started measuring and mapping out the celestial body. They needed all the information they could get in order to enter Bennu's orbit, since the asteroid has…
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With masses of hazardous space junk orbiting Earth, Japan offers a solution

On July 2, 2016 by Michelle Turner With 0 Comments - Tech

Right now there are countless fragments of space junk orbiting Earth that are big enough to cause serious damage to working satellites or even the ISS. Japan’s space agency is close to testing an innovative solution it hopes can make space safer.

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