NASA will try to keep its leaking asteroid sample away tomorrow


The OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft captured material from the planet’s surface last week, but scientists say it has caught so much that the collector’s head leaks small particles. Today NASA announced plans to secure what it catches. The maneuver was originally scheduled to take place on November 2, but now they are going to do it tomorrow.

The Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM) arm will take several days for its collector head to be deposited in the capsule on the spacecraft, as the whole process is manually controlled and it is far away from the earth that handles the signals. 18 minutes to transmit a route.