ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ  

A few days ago, the team behind -REx mission did recovery rehearsal of the sample capsule that should land Sept 24 in the Utah Desert

blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/

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ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ  

Yesterday the -REx spacecraft briefly fired its thrusters to point itself toward Earth, putting it on course to release its sample return capsule from 63,000 miles (102,000 kilometers) above Earth’s surface on Sept. 24

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ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ  

ALIEN CRAFT SPOTTED ON COLLISION COURSE WITH EARTH

actually it is -REx returning a sample from Asteroid

Spotted on 16th September by ’s Optical Ground Station (OGS) telescope in Tenerife, OSIRIS-REx was 4.66 million km from Earth sample will arrive on Sept. 24th

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ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ  

-REx asteroid probe now only 520,000 km away from earth.

Sample release at 4:42am MDT
Divert maneuver at 5:02am MDT
Sample entry at 8:42am MDT over Utah

all happening tomorrow.

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ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ  

-REx

Coming in ... er ... cold with a special delivery

eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-syste

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ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ  

we get signal
What? Main screen turn on
Its you!

-Rex

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ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ  

spotted -REx 324,000 km from earth

amazing effort for this shot

Craft with sample of is less than 200k from earth. only 6 hours away from earth entry

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ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ  

-REx delivers the US's first pristine asteroid sample after a 3.86 billion-mile journey. Watch landing live from DOD Utah Test & Training Range

youtube.com/live/21X5lGlDOfg?f

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ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ
Follow

amazing work. Sample separation from -REx was detected and confirmed

Daniel Parrott at Siding Spring observatory, Australia managed to observe the separation of the sample return capsule from -REX:

landing ETA in 20 minutes

youtube.com/watch?v=KjoWdUX8jH

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ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ  

infrared tracking -Rex from ground!

ENTRY IS NOW

SO EXCITED

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ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ  

-Rex

CHUTES DEPLOYED at 5000 feet *happy sigh*

Welcome to earth

\o/

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ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ  

Recovery Helicopters have sighted -REx SRC

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ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ  

TOUCHDOWN!

-REx SRC

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ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ  

The -REx main spacecraft, now renamed -APEX , is passing through the perigee of its hyperbola and heading back out towards solar orbit to visit asteroid

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ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ  

-REX Confirmed sighting. Stabe-1 Perfect landing

9except for the drogue chute maybe not deploying

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ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ  

-REx

Nominal conditions. Samples intact

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ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ  

-REx landing recovery complete on Helo1

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ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ  

-REx safely delivered to Temporary clean room operations facislity

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ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ  

is the sample -REx collected from the ASTEROID a Meteorite?

What do you think they are ?

13 votes · Sep 25, 2023, 20:54
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ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ  

-REx Post landing press conference starting soon on NASA LIVE

youtube.com/watch?v=nA9UZF-SZo

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The Namelss One  

@Kinnison

<waits patiently for news of jet crash over desert near landing site>

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Misterfive  

@Kinnison

I'd say a meteorite has been burned and contaminated falling through our atmosphere, not lovingly carried through it in a sterile, pristine environment!

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Tarnagh  

@Kinnison

Space rocks. 🙂

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Thankful Turkey  

@Kinnison Where did it end up landing?

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ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ  

@poemblaze

N 40°22'20.1" W +113°14'23.1"

maps.app.goo.gl/mSq3rPpJE6YCb4

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Thankful Turkey  

@Kinnison I could get there if I drove 21.5 hours. 😃. I suspect it would already be gone. 😉

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ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ  

@poemblaze

area is restricted and is part of the The Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) possible there is unexploded ordinance in the area

There might be a Drogue chute in the area I do not think anyone has found yet

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