OSIRIS REx Slings Orbital Web Around Asteroid

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The OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) mission was a NASA spacecraft that was launched in 2016 with the primary goal of studying the asteroid Bennu and returning a sample of its surface material to Earth. The spacecraft reached Bennu in late 2018 and successfully collected a sample from the asteroid's surface in October 2020. However, I'm not aware of any developments regarding the spacecraft slinging an orbital web around the asteroid.

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