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Elation as NASA’s Osiris-Rex probe tags asteroid Bennu in sample bid

21 October 2020

America’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft has completed its audacious tag-and-go manoeuvre designed to grab surface rock from an asteroid. Radio signals from 330 million km away confirm the probe made contact with the 500m-wide object known as Bennu.






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