Journey to an Asteroid: 3D Software Plots OSIRIS-REx's Complete Route
- Sarah Lewin for Space.com September 14th, 2016
- Source: http://www.space.com/34059-osiris-rex-asteroid-journey-visualization.html
New software, previewed last night (Sept. 12) here at the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium, steps through every kink and curl in the complicated process of getting NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to its faraway asteroid, Bennu.
The visualization, presented in the planetarium's dome, traced the spacecraft from its Sept. 8 launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, through its laborious journey away from Earth and toward a rendezvous with the asteroid's eccentric orbit.
