101955 Bennu Current Affairs, GK & News

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 blow any harmful looking asteroids out of the sky before they have a chance to ..

Topics: 101955 Bennu • Asteroid • HAMMER • Hypervelocity • Natural sciences • Physical sciences • Planetary defense • Planetary science

OSIRIS-Rex

OSIRIS-Rex stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer.  It is an unmanned spacecraft and NASA’s first mission. The mission was launched in 2016 to collect samples from asteroid 101955Bennu, a carbonaceous asteroid near to earth  and return a sample to Earth on 24 September 2023 for detailed analysis. The material returned is expected ..

Topics: 101955 Bennu • Asteroid • Dante Lauretta • NASA • New Frontiers program • OSIRIS-REx • Planetary defense • Planetary science • Spacecraft