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Jan 23, 2025 | 
blogs.nasa.gov | Erin Morton
NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Apophis Explorer) spacecraft kept its cool again this past fall after passing within 46.5 million miles of the Sun, between the orbits of Mercury and Venus, and surpassing its designed heat tolerances. On Jan. 23 the mission team completed its review of all the data recorded by the spacecraft and its instruments during the solar pass.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
blogs.nasa.gov | Erin Morton
On Dec. 12, at 11:15 p.m. EST, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, currently in a two-year orbit around the Sun, will skim Earth’s atmosphere, passing only about 220 miles (360 kilometers) above the surface. This close flyby will result in a “gravity assist,” putting the spacecraft on a new trajectory that travels through the main asteroid belt and out to the never-before-explored Jupiter Trojan asteroids, small bodies that orbit the Sun at the same distance as Jupiter.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
blogs.nasa.gov | Erin Morton
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft recently completed the shaking, chilling, baking, and other testing needed to ensure it can survive launch and the harsh conditions of space. Now that environmental testing is done, the spacecraft team at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, is putting the orbiter and its science instruments through flight system software tests that simulate key aspects of launch, maneuvers, and the science mission while in orbit around the Moon.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
blogs.nasa.gov | Erin Morton
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission passed a mission planning milestone, known as Key Decision Point E, on Monday. It now is approved to continue to proceed toward launch, with a launch period that opens Thursday, Oct. 10.
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May 1, 2024 | 
daily.jstor.org | Emily Zarevich |Erin Morton
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. “Live-in or keep house.” Fish peddler Everett Lewis slapped this short ad on the walls of shops all over Marshalltown, Nova Scotia, in January 1938. Maud Dowley accepted the job. She also convinced the crabby Everett to marry her, and she became Mrs. Maud Lewis only weeks later.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
blogs.nasa.gov | Elyna Niles-Carnes |Jason Costa |Erin Morton |Alana Johnson
NASA, SpaceX, and Europa Clipper mission managers met Friday, Oct. 4, to conduct a Flight Readiness Review at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During the review, teams provided an update on the mission’s status and certified its readiness to initiate final launch preparation activities. Europa Clipper will launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
blogs.nasa.gov | Erin Morton
Preliminary telemetry indicates that NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft successfully completed a two-month operation that brought it 25 million miles closer to the Sun than it was designed to function. The spacecraft continues its journey to reach asteroid Apophis in April 2029. The OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft, formerly known as OSIRIS-REx, repositioned one of its two solar arrays to shade critical components from the Sun’s heat during its Jan.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
phys.org | Erin Morton
After its successful first asteroid encounter in 2023, NASA's Lucy mission has its sights firmly set on its main targets, the never-before-explored Jupiter Trojan asteroids. In 2024, the Lucy spacecraft will transition from its current orbit around the sun—one that just skims the inner-edge of the main asteroid belt—to a new orbit that will carry it beyond the orbit of Jupiter and into the realm of the Trojan asteroids.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
blogs.nasa.gov | Erin Morton
After its successful first asteroid encounter in 2023, NASA’s Lucy mission has its sights firmly set on its main targets, the never-before-explored Jupiter Trojan asteroids. In 2024, the Lucy spacecraft will transition from its current orbit around the Sun – one that just skims the inner-edge of the main asteroid belt – to a new orbit that will carry it beyond the orbit of Jupiter and into the realm of the Trojan asteroids.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
blogs.nasa.gov | Erin Morton
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule landed under parachute in the Utah desert on Sept. 24, 2023, and safely delivered a cannister of rocks and dust collected from near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Although the delivery was successful, the landing sequence did not go entirely according to plan, with a small parachute called a drogue not deploying as expected.
