It wouldn't have been limited to just Earth. Ali Rogin (voice-over): The Osiris Rex spacecraft, now called Osiris Apex, which collected this extraordinary sample, is now aiming at a new target.

Bennu was the target for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission, which touched down briefly on the space rock in October 2020 to gather over 4 ounces of material, and then brought that sample ...

A further stage of development of OSIRIS towards higher data rates is OSIRISv3. The terminal now has its own alignment unit with which the data rate can be increased up to 10 Gbit/s. In use on the ...