#EVERSPACE 2 PLANET LANDING SERIES#

Located in a small structure between two of the 'plates' Spare Power Core is for the nearby launch tube. Shoot an energy Sphere up the tube at the bottom to get two Power Cores to access the final Container. Use the Battery from the top to access the Energy Sphere Generator. Located on the top and middle of the station. Bring a Protector Sphere to access the cave, and an Energy Sphere from the nearby station (puzzles 7-9) to open Located 'below' the earlier cave structure. Located at the 'end' of the cave system, bring a Protector Sphere to open Located inside a Hydra in the same cave system Hidden in a compartment after you bring a Protector Sphere to a nearby socket

#EVERSPACE 2 PLANET LANDING SERIES#

Once located and packaged for travel, the capsule will be flown via helicopter longline to a temporary clean room on the military range, where it will undergo initial processing and disassembly in preparation for its journey by aircraft to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, where the sample will be documented, cared for, and distributed for analysis to scientists worldwide.First in a series of collectibles in a cave structure involving the nearby Protector Sphere Dispener The goal for the recovery team is to retrieve the capsule from the ground as quickly as possible to avoid contaminating the sample with Earth’s environment. The infrared glow of the capsule’s heat signature will be tracked by thermal instruments until the capsule becomes visible to optical instruments, giving the recovery team a way to trace the capsule’s Earthbound path. (Lockheed Martin image)Ībout 20 minutes before the capsule lands, when it is still high above the veil of Earth’s atmosphere, the recovery field team will board four helicopters and head out into the desert. This graphic shows the events that happen between the time the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft releases its sample capsule to the time it lands in the Utah desert. At touchdown, the capsule will have slowed to about 11 mph (18 kph).įinally, just 13 minutes after entering the atmosphere, the capsule will be on Earth for the first time in seven years, awaiting the recovery team’s approach. Six minutes later – at about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) above the desert – the main chute will unfurl, carrying the capsule the rest of the way to a 36-mile by 8.5-mile (58-kilometer by 14-kilometer) area on the military range.

A drogue parachute designed to provide a stable transition to subsonic speeds will deploy first, about 2 minutes after the capsule enters the atmosphere. Parachutes will bring the capsule’s descent to a safe landing speed.

A heat shield will help to regulate the temperature inside the capsule, keeping the sample safe at a temperature similar to that of Bennu’s surface. EDT), traveling about 27,650 mph (44,500 kph).Īt this pace, the compression of Earth’s atmosphere will produce enough energy to envelop the capsule in a superheated ball of fire. Meanwhile, after zooming through space for four hours, the capsule will pierce Earth’s atmosphere at 8:42 a.m. Twenty minutes after the drop-off, the spacecraft will fire its thrusters to divert past Earth toward asteroid Apophis, where it will continue investigating our solar system under a new name: OSIRIS-APEX (OSIRIS-Apophis Explorer). Instead, when it reaches 63,000 miles (or 102,000 kilometers) above Earth’s surface – about one-third the distance from Earth to the Moon – a message from operators on the ground will trigger the capsule’s release and the capsule will be sent spinning toward the atmosphere below. When it approaches Earth, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft won’t slow down as it makes its sample drop-off. On board are an estimated 8.8 ounces, or 250 grams, of rocky material collected from the surface of Bennu in 2020 – NASA’s first asteroid sample and the largest ever collected in space. 24, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s sample capsule will come face-to-face with Earth’s atmosphere for the first time since the mission’s 2016 launch.

The mission’s thrilling finale will take place on September 24, 2023, as a capsule containing the Bennu samples touches down in Utah’s West Desert. Two years and four months after leaving Bennu, OSIRIS-REx is closing in on the place where its journey began. Now, two years and four months after leaving Bennu, OSIRIS-REx is closing in on the place where its journey began. In October 2020, the spacecraft ventured to the asteroid’s surface and collected about 250 grams of material for delivery to Earth. It launched in September 2016 on a journey to explore a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. WATCH: OSIRIS-REx is NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission.

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