101955 Bennu
HAMMER Spacecraft
HAMMER stands for Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response. It is a nuclear spacecraft made by a joint venture between NASA, the US National Security Administration and a weapons lab from the US Energy Department. The spacecraft aims to ..
Tags: 101955 Bennu • Asteroid • HAMMER • Hypervelocity • Natural sciences
101955 Bennu: The OSIRIS-REx Mission and Its Significance
The OSIRIS-REx mission is a NASA spacecraft mission that was launched in 2016 to explore an asteroid known as 101955 Bennu. The mission’s goal is to collect a sample of Bennu’s surface material and return it to Earth for analysis. ..
Tags: 101955 Bennu • Asteroid • Dante Lauretta • NASA • New Frontiers program