{"id":179104,"date":"2016-09-09T08:53:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T06:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=179104"},"modified":"2016-09-09T08:54:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T06:54:52","slug":"nasa-asteroid-probe-osiris-rex-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/179104-nasa-asteroid-probe-osiris-rex-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"NASA asteroid probe Osiris-Rex launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA and\u00a0United Launch Alliance, a partnership of Lockheed Martin and Boeing, successfully launched a rocket carrying a probe on a 7-year mission to collect samples from an asteroid.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-s-osiris-rex-speeds-toward-asteroid-rendezvous\" target=\"_blank\">Called Osiris-Rex<\/a><\/strong>, the probe will take two years to travel to the near-earth asteroid\u00a0Bennu, which orbits the sun at roughly the same distance as earth.<\/p>\n<p>The probe will gather samples from Bennu and return them to earth so they may be studied\u00a0to gain a deeper understanding on how life may have been seeded here.<\/p>\n<p>It will also improve our understanding of asteroids that could impact earth, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-prepares-to-launch-first-us-asteroid-sample-return-mission\" target=\"_blank\">NASA said<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More space news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/178091-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-explodes-takes-facebook-satellite-with-it.html\"><strong>SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explodes, takes Facebook satellite with it<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/177639-used-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-will-launch-ses-satellite.html\"><strong>Used SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch SES satellite<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/175002-space-submarines-will-explore-the-seas-of-distant-moons.html\"><strong>Space submarines will explore the seas of distant moons<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/174504-virgin-galactic-gets-spaceship-licence.html\"><strong>Virgin Galactic gets Spaceship licence<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/173316-us-military-launches-space-mission-force.html\"><strong>US military launches Space Mission Force<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osiris-Rex aims to collect samples from an asteroid and return them to earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":179106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[36,8789,8581,761,38870,38872],"class_list":["post-179104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-active","tag-boeing","tag-lockheed-martin","tag-nasa","tag-osiris-rex","tag-united-launch-alliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}