The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer and Hayabusa-2 hoaxes

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The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer OSIRIS-REx is a NASA un-manned spacecraft remotely controlled by experts on Earth. They cannot explains how they do it! Except that they do it. The old story! Everything is fantasy - rocket, spacecraft, asteroid, etc.

The spacecraft is named after Osiris that was the first Egyptian pharaoh (right) 5 400 years ago, usually identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead, but more appropriately as the god of transition, resurrection, and regeneration. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and holding a symbolic crook and flail.

Osiris was one of four children born from the womb of the sky-goddess, Nut and fathered by Ra, the sun god. Osiris took Isis as his wife, and they became the first rulers of Egypt.

Regolith is a layer of loose, heterogeneous superficial material covering solid rock.

Haven't you heard about it? On 3 December 2018 it arrived at asteroid Bennu! And October 12, 2019 a photo was taken! A sample was to be taken.

The spacecraft is scheduled to deliver the sample to Earth on Sep. 24, 2023.


All is 100% fake news! Quite funny.
OSIRIS-REx. What a name!

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft - LOL!

It is, we are told, a strange spacecraft (left) with two large ostrich feathers like solar panels at the top side and a crook and a flail at the bottom - a Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, TAGSAM, an elegantly simple sampler head with an articulated arm - to pick up regolith on an asteroid. So what is an asteroid?

An asteroid is literally a time capsule of 4.5 billion years, we are told. They are considered the original stuff of our Milky Way solar system - leftover scraps from the cataclysmic nebula collapse in which our solar system was formed 4.5 billion years ago according unknown sources. They are relatively untouched by collisions (!) and other events (?) that might have incinerated the surfaces of larger bodies like planets, changing the molecular structure of their original terrains. A sample from the surface of an asteroid will therefore prove (or disprove) one of planetary science's big emerging theories: that the Earth was scorched and barren until it was "reseeded" eons ago by asteroids. Imagine that!

After it has arrived at Bennu (formerly 1999 RQ36), it will bring at least a 2.1 ounce (~50 grams) sample back to Earth for study. Citizen scientists (LOL) are May 2019 required to assist NASA by looking at fake photos of Bennu taken from miles away!


The
orbit of asteroid Bennu around the Sun is intrinsically dynamically unstable, which means it is very difficult to find the asteroid, we are also told. How and why it started to orbit the Sun 4.5 billion years ago is also unclear. Why would such a small thing orbit the Sun? Bennu has a mean diameter of approximately 492 m, i.e. very small. Maybe it doesn't even exist? Maybe it is invented by NASA to be a stage prop?

Bennu orbits the Sun in 437 days at an average speed of 28.000 m/s compared with Earth's orbital speed 29 900 m/s during 365 days, we are told. Note that Earth turns around the Sun at about 1°/day, while Bennu is slower 0.835°/day. The difference is 0.165°/day. You can see the positions of Earth and Bennu in NASA figures below.

Note that both Bennu and Earth are about 150 000 000 kilometres from the Sun, i.e 1 AU.

Who came up with this stupid idea?

It was Dr. Michael J. Drake, a criminal, planetary scientist, that worked on many NASA fake space missions in his lifetime. He had, to get started, 1960's checked the fake Apollo 11+ Moon soil! He remained devoted to one idea, though, that he proposed several times and that NASA officials rejected twice: to send a spacecraft to an asteroid, take rock samples from the surface and bring them home to study the origins of life in the Universe!!!

The totally, ridiculous expedition finally received NASA's approval on May 24 2011 after a gruelling two-year review process, during which Dr. Drake continued working despite receiving a diagnosis of liver cancer and undergoing liver transplant surgery, bla, bla, bla. He died on Sept. 21, 2011 in Tucson. He was only 65.

Dr. Drake was the head of the nonsensical, 100% criminal, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, and was a leader in the field of fake extraterrestrial geology.

Ultima Thule asteroid - 4.5 billions years old and 44.5 AU from the Sun and not damaged since then

He studied false lunar rocks, meteors and the moons of Saturn. He helped map the surface of Mars and was part of a NASA team that detected the presence of non-existing ice below the Martian surface back in 2002. Main stream media loved this brainwashed idiot and his Fake News!

But dr. Drake is of course no alone! Ever heard of Ultima Thule?

The Ultima Thule asteroid orbits the Sun in 298 years at average 44.54 AU, i.e. it is 44.54 times further away from the Sun than Earth. It is outside planet Pluto that orbits the Sun at only average 39.5 AU distance, we are told.

There have been few to no disruptive impacts on funny Ultima Thule (picture left) since it was formed 4.5 billion years ago, so the details of its formation have been preserved.

It was discovered on 26 June 2014 by another fake/criminal astronomer Marc Buie using the fake Hubble Space Telescope, so you can be sure it and everything else are 100% fantasy and don't exist. Marc has found 1 000's of minor planets and assteroids orbiting the Sun or his own asshole - all fake of course.


On
September 8, 2016, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft therefore finally took off from Earth as follows:

Burning a combination of refined kerosene called RP-1 and liquid oxygen and carrying a single solid-fuelled booster with the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on top, the first stage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V 411 pushed the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft through the dense lower layers of the atmosphere, then the Centaur upper, second stage took over, propelling OSIRIS-REx faster and higher. About 55 minutes after launch, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft separated from the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen fuelled second stage rocket to fly free, ...

we are told. 55 minutes? There was only 19 minutes of fuel aboard in the rocket!

Atlas rockets have evolved over four decades to become a highly reliable launch vehicle, if you believe propaganda. The Atlas V booster family now provides a variety of vehicles capable of launching a wide range of spacecraft and satellites, we are told. This was the 65th time a rocket of this type was used. All secret!

The first stage Atlas V Russian built rocket engine burnt during 253 seconds, i.e. less than five minutes using about 284 tons of fuel to deliver the about 25 tons second stage and the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft at an unknown altitude - say 100 kilometres - and velocity - say 3 000 m/s. After that the first, empty stage slowed down and dropped back on Earth and burnt up in the atmosphere. Russian built rocket engines need plenty fuel/force to get off Earth.

The second stage - the Centaur booster - rocket engine burnt during 842 seconds, i.e. about 14 minutes using about 21 tons of fuel to deliver OSIRIS-REx spacecraft at un unknown altitude and speed but say it was 400 kilometres and 8 000 m/s.

After that the second, empty stage also dropped down back on Earth and burnt up in the atmosphere or started orbiting Earth while the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was catapulted away one way or other from Earth to orbit the Earth one way or other at increased speed. But it would appear that the Atlas V rocket and its booster the Centaur were unable to deliver the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, so it could enter a strange hyperbolic trajectory around the Sun 150 000 000 kilometres away and break free of Earth gravity.

8 September 2016 OSIRIS-REx left Earth (green orbit) into a hyperbolic trajectory around the Sun to encounter Earth again on 22 September 2017 for an Earth Gravity Assist swing-by to enter another hyperbolic trajectory to arrive and stop at the Bennu (in its blue orbit) December 2018 to collect a 50 gram sample of it. OSIRIS-REx will then leave Bennu March 2021, encounter Earth again twice for two Earth Gravity Assist swing-bys and two new hyperbolic trajectories around the Sun to finally arrive at Earth on 23 September, 2023, to drop off the 50 gram sample of Bennu

There is no way an Atlas V rocket + Centaur booster can place anything in orbit or hyperbolic trajectory around the Sun 150.000.000 kilometres away! Everything sent away from Earth always orbits Earth until it is kicked into a new orbit after a 'gravity assisted kick or sling shot'. Of course NASA and/or the United Launch Alliance staff will tell you something else ... if you can get hold of them.  

The cost of the mission is approximately US$800 million not including the Atlas V launch vehicle, which is about US$183.5 million. Imagine how much money is used to get some regolith off an asteroid.

And August 2018 OSIRIS-REX had almost arrived to its target (asteroid Bennu) described further below. Space travel is easy. You just lift off from Earth into a hyperbolic trajectory around the Sun and then you return to Earth for an Earth Gravity Assist kick or swing-by to enter into another hyperbolic trajectory around the Sun, so that you arrive at Bennu, where you stop, take a photo and collect a 50 gram sample of it.

Then you leave Bennu, enter a new hyperbolic trajectory around the Sun twice to arrive at Earth for Gravity Assist swing-bys to finally arrive at Earth on 23 September 2023.

It is so easy! But do not ask the navigation team on Earth how it is done. They will not answer any stupid questions.


JAXA has done the same, fake thing on a smaller scale, i.e. spacecraft takes off from Earth and starts orbiting the Sun.

After a certain time in orbit around the Sun and the Earth the spacecraft encountered planet Earth again for a fake Earth Gravity Assist kick swing-by to modify the initial orbit. The modified orbit then brings the spacecraft in the vicinity of an asteroid in another orbit around the Sun and then you brake and ... magic ... your spacecraft is in the same orbit as the asteroid. Nobody at NASA/JAXA can really explain anything and will never reply, if you contact them.

The mission will not help scientists investigate how planets formed and how life began, as well as not improve our understanding of asteroids that could impact Earth, as we are told! The whole thing is a hoax! Imagine that! Asteroids impacting Earth!

This is probably the whole purpose of the hoax. During the fake trip OSIRIS-REx will discover another asteroid that is going to impact Earth. Plenty astronut actors and physicist clowns have already told us about it for hours on 30 June!


But don't worry!
US president Trump and VP Mike Pence directed 2018 the establishment of a Space Force to better protect U.S. vital interests in space.  

See Final Report on Organizational and Management Structure for the National Security Space Components of the US Department of Defense, August 9, 2018: 

First, US DoD will establish a Space Development Agency to develop and field space capabilities at speed and scale. The Air Force has already begun to transform its Space and Missile Center (SMC). The Department will accelerate and extend this transformation to all services by creating a joint Space Development Agency.  

Second, the Department will develop the Space Operations Force to support the Combatant Commands. These joint space war fighters will provide space expertise to combatant commanders and the Space Development Agency, and surge expertise in time of crisis to ensure that space capabilities are leveraged effectively in conflict.  

Third, the Department will create the governance, services, and support functions of the Space Force. Many of these will require changes to U.S. law. The Department will build a legislative proposal for Congressional consideration as a part of the Fiscal Year 2020 budget cycle. 

Fourth, the Department will create a U.S. Space Command, led by a four star general or flag officer, to lead the use of space assets in warfighting and accelerate integration of space capabilities into other warfighting forces. U.S. Space Command will be responsible for directing the employment of the Space Force.

Source

So when OSIRIS-REx 2019, 2020 or 2021 discovers an asteroid on its way to destroy planet Earth 2023 USA is ready to send space war fighters to it and blow it up by an atomic bomb 2022. But let's not go too fast forward of the developments of this hoax.  

According some criminal scientists at Tucson, AZ, OSIRIS-REx will determine Bennu's physical and chemical properties. This will be critical for future scientists to know, when developing an ESA impact mitigation mission. Imagine that - an impact mitigation mission. Finally, asteroids like Bennu contain natural resources such as water, organics, and precious metals. Future space exploration and economic development will rely on asteroids for these precious materials. Asteroids like Bennu may one day fuel the exploration of the Solar System by fake robotic and manned spacecraft.

It is the latest NASA hoax and/or racket to steal money from people! With the help of Luxembourg!

Cosmic objects like the Bennu asteroid (left) aren't just big rocks threatening the future of civilization in blockbuster sci-fi flicks (and, sometimes, in real life). They are chock full of water, precious metals like iron, nickel, and cobalt, ore, silicon, and a wide variety of other elements and substances, we are told. They are, in the eyes of some, solid chunks of potential profit hurtling through space.

The picture left of Bennu - taken July, 2019 - is evidently a fake. Continue reading and you'll find out why!

Luxembourg, a small country in Europe located between Belgium, Germany and France, has, for the past few years, been exploring the potential for space mining. It is so funny!

Would you buy a Luxembourg space mining license from this man?

Etienne Schneider (left), born 29 January 1971, is a Luxembourg politician and economist of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP) and Luxembourg's minister of the economy. He has made it a priority to work in collaboration with Pete Worden of NASA's Ames Research Centre on this goal. 

When Etienne Schneider became Luxembourg's minister of the economy in 2012, one of his first trips abroad was to NASA's Ames Research Centre. It was very strange for the tiny state's money man to solicit meetings with cosmic researchers, but Luxembourg is always on the lookout for its next big investment (or money laundering) business. So when the centre's director, Pete Worden, began to talk about space mining - extracting water, ore, precious metals, alien time capsules, and whatever else from the likes of asteroids. Schneider listened. "I thought this was all science fiction," says Schneider. But Worden convinced him there was a whole cosmic economy to build, one that could extend from the Moon to Mars and into their own pockets!

 
That same year, the two persons founded a space prospecting company called Planetary Resources. And in January 2013, another, named Deep Space Industries - headquartered inside NASA's Ames campus - was born. Schneider saw the future. "The question was not if that all would happen, but when," he says. "And there I saw a huge opportunity for Luxembourg." That's why, on August 1, 2017, Luxembourg adopted a new law. The act, passed by the country's parliament gives companies rights to resources extracted from asteroids or other celestial bodies. It also sets up a system for the country to authorize and supervise such ventures in compliance with the Outer Space Treaty. Étienne Schneider says he is in discussions with fund owners who want to invest more than one billion (!) Euros into space ventures in the country. 

New Space Europe 16-17 November 2017 was the first space conference in Europe to focus solely on the new space industry and the economic opportunity of space. Hosted by The Ministry of the Economy of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in Luxembourg City, New Space Europe centred around the theme "New Frontiers of Opportunity" highlighting the exponential growth of the space ecosystem, critical to creating a sustainable space economy across the world. There were plenty speakers telling how to fake it and you could meet iSpace - a Japanese private lunar exploration company with a vision to extend human presence into outer space and Planetary Resources Inc. - led by entrepreneurs in the commercial space industry and former NASA engineers.

There is no biz like the space biz ... since 1962. And now it is about asteroid space mining!

However, you first have to show that you can find an asteroid. OSIRIS-REx travelling to Bennu is the test case. And it is a 100% NASA hoax! All false! Actually a way to launder stolen money from tax payers. You just invent a space trip with fake footage.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre provides overall mission management, systems engineering and the safety and mission assurance for OSIRIS-REx. Dante Lauretta of the Lunatics and Planetary Laboratory of University of Arizona, Tucson, is the principal investigator, and the University of Arizona also leads the science team and the mission's observation planning and processing. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver built the spacecraft and is providing flight operations. Goddard and KinetX Aerospace are responsible for navigating the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. OSIRIS-REx is the third mission in NASA's New Frontiers Program. NASA's Marshall Space Flight centre in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the agency's New Frontiers Program for its Science Mission Directorate in Washington. They do it in memory of Michael J. Drake, a false, Tucson planetary scientist and founder of the false laboratory. 

It has taken thousands of people many years of perseverance to carry out the OSIRIS-REx hoax. 

There are thus many (100's) funny individual scientists and companies apart from Luxembourg involved in the $800 million OSIRIS-REx hoax. Meet them; they are all just actors, prior to the launch telling MSM all about it. It is standard NASA praxis to line up the smiling expert scientists on a NASA stage with a colorful background. If you ask a question the actors cannot answer, they will hint you are too stupid to understand it:

From left are: George Diller of NASA Clownications; Geoffrey Yoder, acting associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Clownications in Washington; Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal clown at the University of Arizona, Tucson; Tim Dunn, NASA launch manager at Kennedy; Scott Messer, program manager for NASA Clownications at United Launch Alliance in Centennial, Colorado; Michael Donnelly, OSIRIS-REx project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Clownications in Greenbelt, Maryland; Rich Kuhns, OSIRIS-REx program manager for Lockheed Martin Clownications in Denver; and Clay Flinn, launch weather officer for the 45th Weather Squadron at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
 

From left are: George Diller of NASA Clownications; Ellen Stofan, NASA chief clown scientist; Jim Green, NASA Planetary Clownications director; Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal clown at the University of Arizona, Tucson; Scott Messer, program manager for NASA Clownications at United Launch Alliance in Centennial, Colorado; Rich Kuhns, OSIRIS-REx program manager for Lockheed Martin Space Clownications in Denver.

Some clowns - all on Earth - of this stupid, impossible magic show are:

1. Dwayne Brown, NASA Office of Clownications, tel 202-358-1726, dwayne.c.brown@NASA.gov

2. Laurie Cantillo, NASA Office of Clownications, tel 202-358-1077, laura.l.cantillo@NASA.gov

3. Nancy N. Jones, NASA Office of Clownications, tel 301-286-0039, nancy.n.jones@NASA.gov

4. Erin Morton, Office of the Principal Clown, University of Arizona, tel 520-269-2493, morton@orex.lpl.arizona.edu

5. Gary P. Napier, Lockheed Martin Clownications, tel 303-971-4012, gary.p.napier@lmco.com

6. George Diller, NASA's Kennedy Space centre Office of Clown Affairs, tel 321-861-7643, george.h.diller@NASA.gov

7. Shannon Ridinger, NASA's Marshall Space Clown centre, tel 256-544-3774, Shannon.J.Ridinger@NASA.gov

They will tell you their inventions and fantasies about the OSIRIS-REx videos and concept imagery .

Call them and tell me (or MSM) what jokes they say ... or lie. I have managed to contact one of them 11 January 2017 - Nancy N. Jones! She promised to explain the famous orbit diagram, where OSIRIS-REx orbits (?) the Sun at variable speeds first away and 60° ahead of Earth later to slow down, so that Earth can catch up for the September 2017 'kick'. I have reminded Nancy several times ... no replies. Nothing can turn around the Sun like that!

13 other scientists joined the team January 2018!

OSIRIS-REx was therefore not launched 8 September 2016, at 7:05 p.m. EDT by the United Launch Alliance (ULA). The Atlas V and its booster didn't launch the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft into a hyperbolic* variable speed (!) trajectory away (?) from Earth to begin a seven-year mission to return an asteroid sample 2023. As you know Earth has velocity ~29 900 m/s orbiting Sun. The speed at departure escaping Earth gravity must therefore have been >41 000 m/s (or more) relative the Sun similar to the Stardust hoax 1999-2006 just to get away into the hyperbolic variable speed orbit! If the speed were too low, Earth gravity would pull you back and you would crash. One way or not the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft got away and the direction was towards the Sun inside Earth's orbit.

The hyperbolic escape speed from Earth was only about 5.410 m/s (3.36 mi/s), so you wonder what happened. It doesn't matter!

What a hyperbolic escape speed is, nobody really knows! In physics, escape velocity is the minimum speed needed for an object to escape from the gravitational influence of a massive body like Earth or the Sun. The escape velocity from Earth is about 11.186 m/s. It means that after a few days the velocity of the spacecraft relative Earth will be 0 due to Earth gravity and then they orbit in parallel around the Sun ... or drop back on Earth. But in the figures below the velocity of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is >20 000 m/s!

In this OSIRIS-REx case the hyperbolic escape speed was maybe the extra speed required to escape from an already moving rocket ... at unknown speed. Ask NASA and ... you will not get any reply!

So it seems OSIRIS-REx would have dropped back and crashed on Earth after a while, if the whole thing was real. But NO, after one year and two weeks OSIRIS-REx was back close to Earth again ... after a >360° variable speed trajectory around the Sun. For a flyby slingshot!

*If something is hyperbolic, it tends to exaggerate things as being way bigger deals than they really are. Hyperbolic statements are tiny dogs with big barks: don't take them too seriously. A hyperbolic trajectory doesn't arrive anywhere; it is simply enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will therefore not reach its asteroid target in 2018 and return a regolith sample to Earth (!!) in 2023. It is just the latest NASA space joke! Not very funny actually so far. I wonder what twerps make it up.

One reason is that no spacecraft can fly around the Sun or anything in a hyperbolic trajectory at variable speeds to start with!

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft however fired, we are told, its Trajectory Correction Manoeuvre (TCM) thrusters for the first time already Friday 7 October 2016 in order to slightly adjust its variable speed, hyperbolic trajectory on the outbound journey from Earth back to Earth around the Sun for the Gravity Assisted Kick almost a year later.

This funny manoeuvre changed the unknown velocity of the spacecraft by 0.5 m/s and used 0.5 kg of fuel. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was then about 14.5 million kilometers from Earth, we were told (see NASA figures below). The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft (dry mass 880 kg) had total start mass of 2.110 kg of which 1.230 kg was fuel. Afterwards the mass was 2 109.5 kg of which 1 229.5 kg was fuel.

At what speed ve must the 0.5 kg of fuel exhaust be ejected to adjust the speed 0.5 m/s? The answer is simple.

Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky has established that the change in velocity, Delta-v, of a spacecraft in vacuum space (no influence of gravity of adjacent planet Earth or the Sun) is a function of the mass ratio (spacecraft mass before, m0 and after, m1 firing the rocket engine, difference m0 - m1 being the fuel mass ejected as exhaust gas and the exhaust velocity ve of gas leaving the spaceship rocket nozzle.

Delta-v = ve ln (m0/m1)

Example - here m0/m1 is 2 110/2 109.5 = 1.000237, so ln(m0/m1) = 0.000237 and ve = 2 110 m/s.

To change the (delta) speed 0.5 m/s you need 0.5 kg fuel (when fully loaded). The remaining fuel 1 229.5 kg of fuel can only be used to change the speed totally 1.845 m/s during the complete (fake) trip.

How OSIRIS Rex, having fuel for total change of speeds 1.845 m/s leaving Earth in one plane, can find, reach and stop at an asteroid making ~28 000 m/s orbital speed in another plane, orbit it, grab a regolith sample off the surface of it, and then fly away from it to fly back to Earth making ~29 800 m/s orbital speed and drop off the sample there is magic. The smiling experts above cannot explain it and you better do not ask NASA about it, even if I have done it - several times. NASA never replies!

My understanding is that no spacecraft of any kind can carry enough fuel for any trip anywhere and return to Earth. I provide more examples below.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft Wednesday 28 December 2016 then executed its first (fake) Deep Space Manoeuvre (DSM-1) putting it on a new, variable speed but still hyperbolic trajectory for the Earth Gravity Assisted Kick in September 2017.

DSM-1 represented the first major, post-launch milestone for OSIRIS-REx. The significant change in trajectory from DSM-1 was necessary to put OSIRIS-REx on course for an encounter with Earth on 27 September 2016. 354 kg of fuel was used for a Delta-v of 431 m/s. Direction unknown!

With m0 = 2 109.5 and m1 = 1 755.5 we have m0/m1 is 2 109.5/1 755.5 = 1.201652, so ln(m0/m1) = 0.1837 and ve = 2 346 m/s. Before it was 2 110 m/s so maybe the rocket engine is getting better?

I have asked Ms Nancy N. Jones and Mr. Erin Morton to confirm the DSM-1 original speed, final speed and speed change, fuel used, what direction it was applied, etc, to be reported here. By 16 October 2017 there was no answer. Anyway, with only 875.5 kg fuel left aboard total Delta-v available is 1 620 m/s or less. Between Jan. 16 and Mar.  6 the speed relative to Sun has been reduced by ~5 000 m/s but don't ask me why! On the other hand the speed away from the Sun is April 2017 >6 000 m/s!

Note the very strange OSIRIS-REx, variable speed/direction, irregular, hyperbolic, Jan 16, 2017 trajectory around the Sun. Two weeks later, Jan 30, 2017, the space craft was 0.91 AU away from the Sun and the speed relative to Sun was 33 km/sec, i.e. the space craft is distancing itself from the Sun and slowing down ... a lot (source)

I will ask them later to explain the details of the Gravity Assisted Kick and change of inclination in September 2017 and how to arrive at little Bennu November 2018 in its intrinsically dynamically unstable orbit. So far they do not provide any information.

16 January 2017, i.e. 4 months and 8 days after launch from Earth, the spacecraft had according NASA almost completed a 180° banana-shaped red, hyperbolic trajectory high speed, small distance, almost circular turn around the Sun and was only 0.85 AU from the Sun with speed reduced to 34 000 m/s (left)! You should really wonder what force turns the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ... and reduces the speed.

Sun gravity? Yes, it pulls the spacecraft towards the Sun all the time until it crashes on the Sun. Earth gravity? Earth is far behind - 5.98 light minutes. Cannot influence the spacecraft.

I would therefore expect that the spacecraft would continue in the yellow trajectory or something similar to finally hit the Sun say in April 2017. However, it is suggested that OSIRIS-REx will continue the hyperbolic turn another 190° around the Sun in 9 months 1 week time, while distancing itself from the Sun to encounter Earth again from outside (!) at 1 AU from the Sun on 22 September 2017. To do so the spacecraft must slow down speed in or increase the distance of the circular turn, centre of which is not the Sun, and then speed up again. How is it possible? This is not rocket science! It is pseudo!

Earth is orbiting the Sun according Kepler in an almost circular ellipse, green in figure right provided by NASA & Co, at average 29.900 m/s speed (since billion years).


It takes a year. Distance from the Sun is constant ~1 AU. Bennu is also orbiting the Sun in another, bigger and less circular ellipse; blue in figure right, at average 28 000 m/s speed but in another plane and sometimes inside or outside the Earth orbit. Bennu was January 2017 far ahead of and outside Earth and OSIRIS-REx.

The probability that Bennu will ever collide with Earth is remote or zero as it has not happened since Bennu was born. They will never pass at the same time in a billion years, where their orbits in different planes intersect in space. 

However, between 9-20 February 2017, the spacecraft, when intersecting the Earth orbit (Earth is not there but far behind) activated its onboard camera suite and commence a search for elusive "Trojan" asteroids ... in the same plane. It is part of the show! Anyway, these asteroids are not dangerous.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was February 2017 looking for Trojan asteroids at the L4 point 60° ahead of Earth in its orbit. Scientists suggest that the Trojans are difficult to detect from Earth as 'they appear near the Sun on the Earth's horizon'. I thought they should be ahead of the Earth and 60° away from the Sun.

So 20 February, 2017, OSIRIS Rex was 60° forward of Earth (right) in space relative Sun. OSIRIS Rex is apparently having a speed of 30 km/s relative Sun compared with Earth's 29.8 km/s, i.e. they do about same speed ... relative Sun, even if it is suggested that speed of OSIRIS Rex is 20 km/s (?) relative Earth. This is a typical NASA display. Nothing makes any sense!

On Feb 6, 2017, OSIRIS-REx, had turned about 210° around the Sun (1.4°/day !) in its strange, banana shaped, variable speed trajectory and were looking for Troyan asteroids 60° in front of Earth (relative Sun). Earth has evidently only turned about150° (1°/day) in its constant speed orbit (source) since launch. Note that Bennu is about 40° ahead (!) of OSIRIS-REx in another plane above or below

You cannot eject an object from Earth to start hyperbolically orbiting (?) the Sun at variable speeds/directions in a circular or elliptic trajectory! The OSIRIS-REx will therefore not Friday 22 September 2017 make a flyby (!) of Earth, which we are told. There will be no collision! Earth's gravitational field can only pull the OSIRIS-REx towards Earth (increase the speed, change the direction), where it then cannot "borrow" a small amount of Earth's orbital energy, according NASA fantasies. Imagine that! This additional orbital energy is used to increase OSIRIS-REx's orbital (? - trajectoral!) inclination and sling it into a second, inclined, impossible, variable speed trajectory of irregular shape around the Sun for a rendezvous with Bennu in its orbit November 2018. No fuel will be used!

Flybys or Gravity Assisted Kicks are always part of any space joke!

See C below about this impossible hoax.

So OSIRIS-REx was not launched by ULA (the Lockheed Martin and Boeing companies faking it jointly) into an impossible, variable speeds/directions, irregular, circular (?) but hyperbolic, trajectory (red in figure right) around Earth orbiting the Sun first banana-shaped inside the Earth orbit at high speed, later outside the Earth orbit at slow speed, but always in the same plane, because it is not possible. January 2017 OSIRIS-REx was not far ahead of Earth. It probably never left Earth!

Can really a NASA spacecraft encounter a fast moving heavenly body in space (?) November 2018, grab a little sample of it (??) and then return to Earth 2023 and deposit the sample at a desert in Utah??? Of course not.

On Feb 20, 2017, OSIRIS-REx continues around the Sun in its strange, banana shaped, variable speed trajectory and was looking for Troyan asteroids 60° in front of Earth (relative Sun). The distance from the Sun has increased 0.06 AU in two weeks! The only thing that is constant is the speed relative to Earth - 20 km/s (?) since Jan. 16. Now OSIRIS-REx must start preparing for the Earth Gravity assist Friday Sept. 22 ... (source)

Similar magic nonsense has NASA done before 1999-2006! Stardust! And it only had 80 kg of fuel! Now it is 15 times more!

If you know the German language, study some questions - 38 Fragen - about it.

A similar hoax was the ESA Rosetta trip 2005-2009!  

The OSIRIS-REx was thus September 2017 not kicked or slung into a second, variable speed, irregular trajectory around the Sun to encounter little Bennu in its intrinsically dynamically unstable orbit somewhere in space November 2018.

It seems you must first travel around the Sun once - in an irregular but circular hyperbolic trajectory at variable speeds/directions (!) - to get kicked to travel a second time around the Sun in another inclined, variable speeds/directions, irregular but circular trajectory and then - magic - you will (not) encounter in space the moving target Bennu in its intrinsically dynamically unstable orbit, where you brake to same speed as Bennu, grab a sample ... and then speed off again back to Earth. It is rocket science described in A. just below. Reason why you cannot fly direct from Earth to Bennu without circling the Sun twice is that it is not possible.

I explain more hoaxes below. Enjoy. ROTFL! It is so stupid.

On Mar 6, 2017, the OSIRIS-REx distance from the Sun has increased to 1.04 AU and the distance to Earth, which has turned ~180° (1°/day) around the Sun since launch, is maximum - >7 light minutes! The speed relative to Earth is reduced to 19 km/s and will from now on just get smaller (source). OSIRIS-REx has turned 240° around the Sun (1.33°/day) since launch, i.e. is slowing down 5% since Feb 7

On Mar 13, 2017, OSIRIS-REx the distance from the Sun has increased to 1.07 AU! The speed relative to Earth is reduced to 18 km/s (source)

On Sept 22, 2017, OSIRIS-REx will encounter planet Earth for a gravity assisted kick. Before it happen, planet Earth will turn ~180° (1°/day) around the Sun, while OSIRIS-REx slows down to <0.8°/day in its elliptic/hyperbolic trajectory (source)

On Apr 3, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was further away from the Sun than ever before (1.13 AU) and planet Earth is catching up from behind. It is really magic (source)

On Apr 10, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was further away from the Sun than ever before (1.15 AU) in its hyperbolic trajectory and planet Earth is catching up from behind in its circular orbit. It is really magic (source)
On Apr 24, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 1.18 AU away from the Sun in its hyperbolic trajectory and it will increase but planet Earth is only 6.15 light minutes behind in its circular orbit. It is really magic (source)
On May 1, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 1.20 AU away from the Sun in its hyperbolic trajectory and it will increase, while planet Earth is only 5.91 light minutes behind in its circular orbit now inside OSIRIS REx and getting closer (source)

On May 8, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 1.21 AU away from the Sun in its hyperbolic trajectory and it will still increase, while planet Earth is only 5.65 light minutes behind in its circular orbit now inside OSIRIS REx and getting closer (source)

On May 15, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 1.22 AU away from the Sun in its hyperbolic trajectory and it will still increase, while planet Earth is only 5.37 light minutes behind in its circular orbit now inside OSIRIS REx and getting closer (source)

While waiting for OSIRIS-REx to return to Earth Sept 22 you can enjoy the NASA/JPL spacecraft DAWN that departed Earth Sept. 27, 2007, at great speed to arrive at planet Mars (average orbital speed 24 km/s) Feb. 17, 2009, and then, after a Mars gravity assist kick, to arrive at dwarf planet Vesta (average orbital speed 19.34 km/s) 11 Jul. 2011 - stupid pictures taken - and dwarf planet Ceres (average orbital speed 17.905 km/s) spring 2015 - more stupid pictures taken. DAWN doesn't use any fuel at all to fly around taking false pictures in space! It uses solar-electric (LOL) propulsion. Everything is 100% false!

On May 22, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 1.22 AU away from the Sun. Earth is only 5.08 light minutes (91.290.848 km!) behind (source). Earth does a regular ~30 km/s in its orbit, so it must travel another ~319 000 000 km until Sep. 22, when it will meet the OSIRIS-REx again. The latter cruises today at only 24 km/s, down from 34 km/s Jan 16 in its hyperbolic, variable speed trajectory. Sep 22 they will meet at 1 AU away from the Sun according NASA!! The Earth is catching up from behind for a Gravity Assist! The OSIRIS-REx variable speed relative Earth will then be something! It is magic!

On May 29, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 1.23 AU away from the Sun, but Earth is only 4.77 light minutes behind.

Earth does of course a regular ~30 km/s speed in its orbit and is catching up from behind for a magic Gravity Assist of the OSIRIS-REx Sep. 22.

OSIRIS-REx is doing ~24 km/s since May 1 in its hyperbolic, variable speed trajectory that is now constant speed. It is magic!

On June 5, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was still 1.23 AU away from the Sun, and Earth, which has turned ~270° (1°/day) since launch, is only 4.45 light minutes behind (source)

So 16 January (see above) the OSIRIS-REx was 0.85AU from the Sun inside the Earth orbit, but on 5 Jun., 140 days later (see left), it was 1.23AU away from the Sun outside the Earth orbit in its mysterious, hyperbolic trajectory.

An Astronomical Unit, AU, is the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun. In 2012, the International Astronomical Union defined the AU distance to be 149.597,870,700 meters. 0.38 AU is thus 56.847.190.566 meters.

So every day the last 140 days the OSIRIS-REx is 406.051.363 meter further away from the Sun. It corresponds to a radial (sic) speed of 4.700 m/s away from the Sun! Imagine that.

Earth radial speed is always 0 (orbit is circular). It seems the OSIRIS-REx has decided to fly away into our Solar system leaving the Sun behind.

Planet Mars (see below left) is between 1.666 and 1.381 AU away from the Sun in its eccentric orbit... so OSIRIS REx is almost halfway to the orbit of Mars June 2017 and must now return back to the Earth orbit.

So how can OSIRIS-REx and Earth meet at 1 AU from the Sun 22 September? Easy! The whole thing is a joke! Isis will not like it.

The fake, ~10 months, impossible space trip trajectory to planet Mars shown above is explained in B. below

On Jun. 12, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was still 1.23 AU away from the Sun, and Earth is only 4.13 light minutes behind (source)

On Jun. 19, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was still 1.23 AU away from the Sun, but Earth was only 3.80 light minutes behind (source). It seems Earth at 29.8 km/sec speed is getting 0.33 light minutes closer to OSIRIS-REx every week, so that the distance will be 0 light minute apart Sept. 22 - when the Earth Gravity Assist takes place

On Jun. 26, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 1.22 AU away from the Sun, and Earth was 3.47 light minutes (20° relative Sun) behind (source). Bennu was ~10° ahead ... but ... x light minutes up or below in another plane. OSIRIS-REx is thus slowing down (!) for its 88 days later 22 Sept. 2017 Earth gravity assist. It will then rendezvous/be lined up with Bennu Nov. 2018. How can variable speed OSIRIS-REx and constant speed Bennu meet Nov. 2018? That is a question NASA refuses to answer!

On Jul. 3, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 1.22 AU away from the Sun, with Earth 3.14 light minutes away (source). Only 80 days remain until the long awaited, fake (!) Earth Gravity Assist will take place. Earth has another ~207 000 000 km to orbit until then. On Sept. 22 OSIRIS-REx will however approach Earth from behind (!) at high speed and be kicked into a new orbit, so that OSIRIS-REx encounters asteroid Bennu Nov. 2018 after a 362° turn around the Sun

On Jul. 10, 2017, OSIRIS-REx (speed 24 km/s) was 1.21 AU away from the Sun, with Earth (speed 29.9 km/s) 2.82 light minutes away (source). On Sept. 22 OSIRIS-REx will be 1 AU away from the Sun and 0 light minutes behind planet Earth ... for the famous gravity assist

On Jul. 17, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 1.20 AU away from the Sun, with Earth only 2.50 light minutes away (source) on the inside. The speed, 24 km/s, will now increase to 29 km/s Sep. 18, to permit an Earth Gravity Assist, LOL, on 22 Sep. 2017.

On Jul. 24, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 1.19 AU away from the Sun, with Earth only 2.19 light minutes away (source). The speed of light is 299.792.458 m/s, so 2.19 light minutes is about 41.671.151.662 m - the distance/gap separating OSIRIS-REx from Earth. In 60 days the fake Earth Gravity Assist shall take place at a very small, unknown altitude. It seems the gap is closing at about 8 km/s

On Jul. 31, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 1.17 AU away from the Sun, with Earth only 1.89 light minutes away (source) on the inside. The gap is closing at 9 km/s, while both heavenly bodies proceed around the Sun; little OSIRIS-REx at 25 km/s, big Earth at 29.8 km/s. It seems OSIRIS-REx in its trajectory will speed up to about 29.8 km/s speed at Sep. 22, 2017, but then no Gravity Assist can take place, which requires substantial speed differences. I have Jul. 27, 2017 asked morton@orex.lpl.arizona.edu to clarify

On Aug. 7, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 1.16 AU away from the Sun, with Earth only 1.60 light minutes away (source) on the inside. Only 46 days until an 'Earth Gravity Assist' will take place. It seems OSIRIS-REx is speeding up for it ... to same speed as Earth around the Sun. The Moon is about 384 400 000 m from Earth. As speed of light is about 299 792 458 m/s, the Moon is 1.28 lights seconds away. The 'Earth Gravity Assist' will take place between Moon and Earth ... what a j o k e!
On Aug. 14, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 1.14 AU away from the Sun, with Earth only 1.33 light minutes away (source) on the inside. Asteroid Bennu is speeding up ahead!
 On Aug. 21, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 1.12 AU away from the Sun and 19 127 648 km from Earth, the gap closing at 8 km/s so in about 28 days they will meet. Aug. 25, 2017, OSIRIS-REx fired its thrusters and performed a precision course adjustment to position itself on the course for the upcoming Gravity Assist on Sep. 22. Fuel used and other details are not known ... of course

On Aug. 28, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 1.10 AU away from the Sun, with Earth only 0.82 light minutes away (source) on the inside. Bennu is speeding up ahead!

On Sep. 04, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 1.07 AU away from the Sun and 0.07 AU from Earth, i.e. only 0.58 light minutes away (source) on the inside. On Sept. 2, 2017, the Large Binocular Telescope on Mt. Graham, Ariz., imaged the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft as the spacecraft approached Earth. This was the first Earth-based view of the spacecraft since its launch on Sept. 8, 2016. Credit: Large Binocular Telescope Observatory. Actually a complete fakery

On Sep. 11, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 1.05 AU (isn't it a lot?) away from the Sun, with Earth only 0.36 light minutes away (source) on the inside. Bennu is speeding away far ahead in another plane. The gap between OSIRIS-REx and Earth is closing at 6 km/s

On Sep.18, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 1.02 AU away from the Sun, with Earth only 0.15 light minutes away (source) on the inside. Bennu is far ahead ... in another plane. OSIRIS-REx is now heading for Earth at 6 km/s (relative) speed but will not crash. It will pass above the South Pole ... and be kicked assisted by gravity into a strange new orbit to encounter Bennu Nov. 2018

On Sep. 22, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 1 AU away from the Sun, with Earth only a few light seconds away (source) or 17 000 kms ... and a fake Earth Gravity Assist took place. LOL! Why didn't Earth gravity pull the spacecraft down for a COLLISION! Anyway the velocity difference before and after the Earth Gravity assist was zero! Only the relative velocity between Earth and spacecraft changed from +6 to -6 km/s

NASA’s asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer), passed about 17 237 kilometers above the South Pole of Earth and away from the new (20 Sept) Moon just before 12:52 p.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 22. OSIRIS-REx was doing about same speed as Earth - about 29.9 km/s - but at different directions (see fig left) coming in from outside. Plenty photos (all fakery) were taken of the spacecraft approaching Earth. The speed change was ~3.8 km/s (and not 2 km/s as shown left)!

Using Earth as a slingshot, the spacecraft received a magic gravity assist to complete its journey to the asteroid Bennu, according to NASA.

“The Earth Gravity Assist is a clever way to move the spacecraft onto Bennu’s orbital plane using Earth’s own gravity instead of expending fuel,” says Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona, Tucson. His e-mail is lauretta@lpl.arizona.edu . Ask him to explain how a Gravity Assists takes place! He will not answer!

Only complete twerps believe this nonsense. I have asked the people mentioned above, incl Dante, many times for details ... but there are no replies ... of course. They cannot explain a magic Earth Gravity Assist .

I would expect the spacecraft being attracted by Earth's gravity to end in a COLLISION! I have encouraged Media to clarify but ... they all sleep.

So no. OSIRIS-REx will now not make another, variable speed hyperbolic orbit around the Sun to rendezvous with Bennu Nov. 2018 ... and the stupid show will just go on

On Sep. 25, 2017, three days after the magic Earth Gravity Assist OSIRIS-REx was 1 AU away from the Sun, with Earth only 0.07 light minutes away (source) now on the outside. Its speed relative the Sun had increased from 29 to 31 km/s but its speed relative Earth remained 6 km/s - only the direction changed 180°! Funny Gravity Assist. Bennu is far ahead ... in another plane making average 28 km/s. Their rendezvous is Nov. 2018 after another 360° turn around the Sun. Then Earth will be far ahead of them in its orbit

On Oct. 2, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 0.97 AU away from the Sun, with Earth 0.28 light minutes away (source) on the outside. Speed relative Sun has increased to 32 km/s. Bennu is far ahead ... in another plane ... making average only 28 km/s in an elliptical orbit. Earth, speed 29.9 km/s, will be far ahead of them in its almost circular orbit a year from now. The gap between Earth and OSIRIS-REx widens by a constant 6 km/s. What a stupid show!

On Oct. 9, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 0.95 AU away from the Sun, with Earth 0.49 light minutes away (source) on the outside. Speed remains at 32 km/s. Bennu is far ahead ... in another plane ... making average only 28 km/s in its elliptical orbit. The gap between Earth and OSIRIS-REx still widens by 6 km/s. The stupid, space, propaganda show will continue until June 2018, when there will be a DSM-2. DSM-1 was done last December

On Oct. 16, 2017, OSIRIS-REx was 0.93 AU away from the Sun, with Earth 0.71 light minutes away (source) on the outside. Speed is 33 km/s. Bennu is far ahead ... in another plane ... making average only 28 km/s in its elliptical orbit. The gap between Earth and OSIRIS-REx widens by 7 km/s

After the 22 Sept. flyby OSIRIS-REx took a false photo of the Earth and the Moon:

At the time this image was taken, the spacecraft was retreating from Earth after performing an Earth Gravity Assist manoeuvre on Sept. 22. Earth and the Moon are shown 249,000 miles (401,200 kilometers) apart, and the spacecraft is 804,000 miles (1,297,000 kilometers) from Earth and 735,000 miles (1,185,000 kilometers) from the Moon. 

As a result of the flyby, the velocity change to the spacecraft (relative the Sun) was 8 451 miles per hour (3 778 meters per second).

"The encounter with Earth is fundamental to our rendezvous with Bennu," said Rich Burns, OSIRIS-REx project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight centre in Greenbelt, Maryland. "The total velocity change from Earth's gravity far exceeds the total fuel load of the OSIRIS-REx propulsion system, so we are really leveraging our Earth flyby to make a massive change to the OSIRIS-REx trajectory, specifically changing the tilt of the orbit to match Bennu."

However, it wasn't shown in the pictures above ... and is normal, nominal, NASA nonsense.

Another result of the flyby is this nonsense:

http://www.asteroidmission.org/?latest-news=nasas-osiris-rex-spacecraft-slingshots-past-earth

http://www.asteroidmission.org/?latest-news=osiris-rex-views-earth-flyby

https://www.asteroidmission.org/?attachment_id=3183#main

http://www.asteroidmission.org/?latest-news=nasas-osiris-rex-snaps-pictures-earth-moon

http://www.asteroidmission.org/?latest-news=osiris-rex-images-moon

http://www.asteroidmission.org/?latest-news=osiris-rex-images-earth-moon-color

 

 As of Oct. 23, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is travelling at approximately 25,000 kph (7 km/sec) relative to Earth. The spacecraft is approximately 17 million km from Earth and 57.7 million km from Bennu. But because Bennu is orbiting around the Sun and isn't stationary, the spacecraft must still travel 948 million km before it can catch up to the asteroid.

On Oct. 16, the spacecraft's communications downlink rate decreased to 10 kbps. Because of the low data rates and other mission planning activities, no science observations are planned through Jan. 7, 2018. Source

So OSIRIS-REx was only 17 million km inside from Earth and 57.7 million km behind Bennu far ahead on Oct. 23 2017, in our solar system ... all three orbiting the Sun in different trajectories, speeds and directions.

Imagine what earth gravity assist fantasies (1) principal investigator Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx Science Processing and Operations centre at the University of Arizona, (2) NASA’s Goddard Space Flight centre in Greenbelt, MD providing overall mission management, systems engineering and safety and mission assurance for OSIRIS-REx, and (3) Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver, CO who built the spacecraft, can invent 2018.

OSIRIS-REx is the third, fake mission in NASA’s New Frontiers Program. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight centre in Huntsville, AL manages New Frontiers for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate. All false of course! Let's recall this one!

On Sept. 8 2016 OSIRIS-REx was catapulted away from Earth in a strange red/yellow/red trajectory around the Sun by a nonsense rocket that couldn't send it to the Moon.

A year later Sept. 22, 2017 OSIRIS-REx, in its impossible red/yellow/red trajectory/orbit around the Sun, encountered Earth again for a fake Gravity Assist to enter an even stranger, new blue/red/blue trajectory/orbit on Oct. 30, 2017 to catch up asteroid Bennu in another orbit far away! But a spacecraft cannot fly around chasing heavenly bodies like this!

On Jan. 15, 2018, OSIRIS-REx was 0.96 AU away from the Sun, with Earth 3.45 light minutes behind (source). Orbital speed is 32 km/s. Bennu is far ahead ... in another plane ... making average only 28 km/s in its elliptical orbit. The gap between Earth and OSIRIS-REx is increasing by 9 km/s and the difference in speed between OSIRIS-REx and Bennu is 7 km/s. This stupid, space, propaganda show will continue until June 2018, when there will be a DSM-2. The arrival at Bennu is delayed to 3 December 2018 with approach operations starting in August.

On May. 21, 2018, OSIRIS-REx was 1.29 AU away from the Sun, with Earth 2.54 light minutes ahead (source). Orbital speed is reduced to 24 km/s. Bennu is very close ahead ... but in another plane/orbit ... making average only 26 km/s in its elliptical orbit. The gap between Earth and OSIRIS-REx is reduced at 7 km/s and the difference in speed between OSIRIS-REx and Bennu is only 1.790 m/s. This stupid, space, propaganda show continues until June 2018, when there will be a DSM-2 ... unless it is cancelled. The arrival operations start August 17, when Bennu is 2 000 000 km ahead.

 

13 new scientists or what you can call them have January 2018 joined the OSIRIS-REx $800 million mission and hoax team to make up what will happen in August 2018 - March 2021:

Joshua Bandfield - Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colorado

Kerri Donaldson-Hanna - University of Oxford, England (Kerri.DonaldsonHanna@physics.ox.ac.uk)

Catherine Elder - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California

Timothy Glotch - Stony Brook University (SUNY), New York

Romy Hanna - University of Texas, Austin (romy@jsg.utexas.edu)

Christine Hartzell - University of Maryland, College Park (hartzell@umd.edu)

Jamie Molaro - Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona

Greg Neumann - NASA's Goddard Space Flight centre, Greenbelt, Maryland

Maurizio Pajola - INAF/Astronomical Observatory of Padua, Italy

Stephen Schwartz - University of Arizona, Tucson

Matthew Siegler - Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona

David Trang - University of Hawaii, Manoa

Pasquale Tricarico - Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona

I really wonder what they all shall do! I have asked Kerri , Romy and Christine but they have not replied. Maybe some old clowns have retired?

On June 25, 2018, OSIRIS-REx was 1.31 AU away from the Sun, with Earth 3.68 light minutes ahead (source). Orbital speed is reduced to 23 km/s. Bennu is very close ahead ... but in another plane/orbit. The difference in speed between OSIRIS-REx and Bennu is only 1.170 m/s. We are ready for DSM-2!

On July 31, 2018, OSIRIS-REx was 1.29 AU away from the Sun, with Earth 5.20 light minutes ahead (source). Orbital speed is increased to 24 km/s. Bennu is very close ahead ... but in another plane/orbit. The difference in speed between OSIRIS-REx and Bennu is only 710 m/s. DSM-2 took place 28 June!

In spaceflight, an orbital maneuver (otherwise known as a burn) is the use of a propulsion system; e.g. a rocket to change the orbit. For a spacecraft far from Earth like OSIRIS-REx such an orbital maneuver is called a Deep-Space Maneuver (DSM). The second OSIRIS-REx Deep Space Maneuver 2 was scheduled for June 28, 2018. It was 100% science fiction. Nobody can explain the purpose of it, of course. But ...

July 3, 2018:

New tracking data confirms that NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully completed its second Deep Space Maneuver (DSM-2) on June 28. The thruster burn put the spacecraft on course for a series of asteroid approach maneuvers to be executed this fall that will culminate with the spacecraft's scheduled arrival at asteroid Bennu on Dec. 3.

...

The DSM-2 burn, which employed the spacecraft's Trajectory Correction Maneuver (TCM) thruster set, resulted in a 37 miles per hour (16.7 meters per second) change in the vehicle's velocity and consumed 28.2 pounds (12.8 kilograms) of fuel.

Well, if the speed relative Bennu was 1 170 m/s on June 25 and 710 m/s on July 30 the change in the vehicle's velocity was 460 meter per second relative Bennu that probably speeded up in its orbit, bla, bla.

It is all science fiction!

DSM-2 represented the second major, post-launch milestone for OSIRIS-REx. The significant change in trajectory from DSM-2 was necessary to put OSIRIS-REx on course for AAM-1 on Oct. 1. 12.8 kg of fuel was used for a Delta-v of 16.7 m/s. Direction unknown!

On Nov. 30, 2018, OSIRIS-REx was 0.96AU away from the Sun, with Earth 6.84 light minutes ahead (source). Orbital speed is increased to 33 km/s. Bennu is very close ahead - 40 km. The difference in speed between OSIRIS-REx and Bennu is only 0.1 m/s.

With m0 = 1 755.5 and m1 = 1 742.7 we have m0/m1 is 1 755.5 /1 742.7 = 1.007345, so ln(m0/m1) = 0.0073 and ve = 2 282 m/s. Before it was 2 110 m/s so maybe the rocket engine is getting better?

As OSIRIS-REx approaches the asteroid, it will use an array of small rocket thrusters to match the velocity of Bennu in its orbit around the Sun, we were told.

ASTEROID APPROACH MANEUVER #1 started on Oct 1 with a main engine deterministic burn to slow the spacecraft from about 500 to 144 m/s speed relative Bennu and begin final approach, we are told.

ASTEROID APPROACH MANEUVER #2 was Oct 15 with a main engine deterministic burn to slow the spacecraft from 144 to 0.53 m/s speed relative Bennu and to continue the approach.

Only twerps believe in this nonsense going from one orbit to another orbit around the Sun via a sling shot above the South Pole of planet Earth September 21, 2017.

Bennu and OSIRIS-REx then met 3 December 2018 and OSIRIS-REx will then, after surveys, bla, bla, bla, land on Bennu and grab a regolith sample!

And after that OSIRIS-REx will take off from Bennu and return to Earth 2023, after a couple of more orbits around the Sun, to drop off the samples on Earth.

During the encounter, OSIRIS-REx will be formation flying at same speed of course with Bennu, while it surveys and maps the asteroid's surface. The survey began in October 2018 and lasted for over a year.

On Jan. 21/24, 2019, OSIRIS-REx was 0.9040AU away from the Sun, with Earth 5.22 light minutes ahead (source). Orbital speed is increased to 34,3 km/s. Bennu is very close ahead - 2 km. The difference in speed between OSIRIS-REx and Bennu is only 0.048 m/s. I thought OSIRIS-REx was orbiting Bennu ...

Media will no doubt be informed of development. It has four major phases:

1. During Preliminary Survey, OSIRIS-REx searches for asteroid plumes and natural satellites, and also measures the Yarkovsky acceleration of Bennu. It is very important even if Bennu is not really rotating!

2 In Orbital A the Flight Dynamics Team transitions from star-based navigation to landmark-based navigation that uses images of Bennu's surface. Do you follow?

3. In Detailed Survey several instruments work together to map Bennu and determine its global spectral, thermal, and geological properties. Actually the Sun heats up Bennu to 150C where it is exposed, while it is -150C in the shade. It is same on the Moon, which actually rotates slowly

4. During Orbital B, OSIRIS-REx continues to map Bennu at higher resolutions, with a focus on candidate sample sites. At the end of Orbital B, a sample site will be selected.

Media will no doubt be fed with pictures and information as the survey progresses. All Fake News, of course! I wonder who will produce the pictures? JPL? Hollywood?

On Dec. 31, 2018, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft went into orbit around asteroid Bennu for the first time. At 2:43 p.m. EST, while many on Earth prepared to welcome the New Year, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) away, carried out a single, eight-second burn of its thrusters - and broke a space exploration record. The picture left suggests something else.


The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft thus left the Bennu orbit around the Sun and entered into a new orbit around the asteroid Bennu (that orbits the Sun), and made Bennu the smallest object ever to be orbited by a spacecraft. Imagine that! There is no evidence of anything. It is (not) very easy to move from variable orbits of OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and the asteroid Bennu around the Sun to another orbit around an asteroid like Bennu. Listen: 

The navigation of any spacecraft entails developing computer models for how the spacecraft's orbit is expected to change over time. We then take actual measurements in space that pinpoint the location of the spacecraft so we can update our models with more precise information. Finally, we design the propulsive maneuvers that adjust the spacecraft's trajectory as it approaches (the target) Bennu. Throughout the first two years of the mission, we've been relying on the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN), an international network of antennas that help scientists and engineers communicate with spacecraft in deep space and to do radio astronomy. Through the DSN, we measure the Doppler shift and the ranging tones (!) from the spacecraft, which we can use to measure how far away the spacecraft is from Earth at any given time. However, as we are approaching (the target) Bennu and starting to do maneuvers in close proximity to it, we are using navigation images captured by the spacecraft to precisely determine its trajectory relative to Bennu. We are designing maneuvers up to four times per week to execute close flybys and eventually insert into Bennu's orbit. When it comes to communicating these navigation instructions to OSIRIS-REx, my team calculates where in the trajectory to place various maneuvers, how large they have to be, and what direction the spacecraft has to be pointed. We then give that information to the operations team so they can build the commands for the spacecraft to execute the maneuvers. 

One problem of course is to commence any maneuvers at the right location, time and direction in space. Here were are told that OSIRIS-REx was first orbiting the Sun in an orbit identical to Bennu's orbit around the Sun. Then a rocket thruster was fired for eight seconds ... and OSIRIS-REx left its orbit around the Sun and started to orbit Bennu instead. Magic! Magic is normal parts of any space trip. And media copy/paste and publish it as Fake News.

After the sample site is selected, OSIRIS-REx orbiting Bennu will move into position to collect a sample of Bennu's surface material, i.e. reduce the altitude of the orbit and land! TheOSIRIS-REx spacecraft's sampling arm will finally touch the surface of Bennu for five seconds as part of the Touch-And-Go sampling manoeuvre.

That will be the big event of the mission and headline FAKE NEWS all over the world. Curious media should try to attend to watch all the actors screaming and shouting and later celebrating with champagne, etc. It is so stupid. Imagine what a fairy tale they have invented!

OSIRIS-REx has plenty tools and instruments - all fake of course - to carry out the exploration of Bennu, which will take several years and last until March 3 2021:

A. The Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, TAGSAM, is an elegantly simple sampler head with an articulated arm. It is designed to collect a sample from the surface of Bennu.

B. The Thermal Emission Spectrometer will produce mineral and thermal emission spectral maps, and local spectral information of candidate sample sites. I call it thermal emission temperature and it will be 150C in the sun and -150C in the shade.

C. The Visible and Infrared Spectrometer will produce mineral and organic spectral maps and gather local spectral information of candidate sample sites in near-infrared. Imagine that! It sounds impressive.

D. The PolyCam, an 8-inch telescope, is the first to "see" the asteroid from 2 million km away. Once the spacecraft is closer, it will image Bennu at high resolution.

E. MapCam searches for satellites and outgassing plumes. It maps the asteroid in 4 different colors, informs our model of asteroid shape, and provides high resolution imaging of the sample-site.

F. SamCam will continuously document the sample acquisition event and TAG manoeuvre. The footage will be forwarded to media worldwide! It is part of every Fake News report.

G. StowCam is part of the guidance, navigation, and control system on OSIRIS-REx. It will be used to verify proper storage of the asteroid sample within the spacecraft's Sample Return Capsule.

H. The Regolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer is a student experiment that will determine which elements are present, and how abundant they are, on the surface of Bennu.

I. The Camera Suite will perform long-range acquisition and global optical mapping, and candidate sample site imaging and documentation.

J. The Sample Return Capsule is designed to hold and return the sample of Bennu's regolith to Earth. It has a heritage design that is based on the SRC used by fake Stardust to successfully return tail material from Comet Wild 2 in 2006.

K. Laser Altimeter will provide ranging data, global topographic mapping, and local topographic mapping of candidate sample sites.

L. The guidance, navigation, and control system will provide information about the spacecraft range to Bennu's surface during the TAG Rehersal and TAG Manoeuvre, to ensure that the spacecraft maintains a safe distance from Bennu.

M. The NavCams, or Navigation Cameras, are part of the guidance, navigation, and control system on OSIRIS-REx. They are used for optical navigation of the spacecraft.

N. The High Gain Antenna provides communication between the spacecraft and ground systems on Earth.

After the sample site is selected, OSIRIS-REx moves into position to collect a sample of Bennu's surface material. Media will no doubt be informed.

The Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, TAGSAM, is, as already said, an elegantly simple sampler head with an articulated arm. It is designed to collect a sample from the surface of Bennu.

Contacting the surface of Bennu for a total of only five seconds, the TAGSAM will release a burst of nitrogen gas, causing loose rocks and surface material to be stirred up and directed into a collector in the sampler head.

As already said it will be the biggest event of the complete mission and produce headline FAKE NEWS all over the world.

OSIRIS-REx will obtain at least 60 grams (2.1 ounces) and up to 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of sample. If needed, the spacecraft is capable of making up to three sampling attempts.

After measuring the mass of the sample, the TAGSAM head will then be stowed in the Sample Return Capsule, SRC, for the journey home.

Bennu has an aphelion of 1.3559 AU, a perihelion of 0.89689 AU (thus inside the Earth orbit as shown on the many diagrams above and below) and an orbital period of 1.20 year or 436.65 days.

Earth orbits the Sun in 365 days (Green orbit), while Bennu orbits the Sun in 437 days (Blue orbit) sometimes inside but mainly outside the Earth orbit

And on September 24, 2023 , OSIRIS-Rex is back close to Earth and Utah and drops off a sample of Bennu ...

Remember that Bennu orbits the Sun in 437 days (BLUE elliptic orbit) at an average speed of 28.000 m/s compared with Earth's orbital speed 29.900 m/s during 365 days (GREEN cicular orbit).

Return Cruise starts March 3 2021, when OSIRIS-REx fires it rocket engine to to leave the BLUE elliptical Bennu orbit to enter a new orbit around the Sun. That orbit will, after some Deep Space Manoeuvers burning fuel, intersect Earth's GREEN cicular orbit say July 2022, when Earth happens to be there to enable a fake flyby slingshot, gravity assist to take place, so that OSIRIS-REx can enter another new orbit around the Sun. That new orbit will, after some more Deep Space Manoeuvers burning more fuel, intersect Earth's GREEN cicular orbit again for the last time, when Earth happens to be there to enable arrival back to Earth on September 24 2023. Speeds and directions before and after return cruise start, at the July 2022 flyby and at arrival are better forgotten as you cannot travel around in space being kicked around by Earth as suggested.

Four hours before reaching Earth's atmosphere, OSIRIS-REx jettisons the SRC placing it on a trajectory to Earth. The OSIRIS-REx then performs a deflection manoeuvre of 17.5 m/s (39 mph) that places the spacecraft on a stable orbit around the Sun, where it will orbit forever.

The SRC starts re-entry of the atmosphere at 120 km altitude and is slowed down by friction and protected by a heat shield. During re-entry the SRC also free falls, until it reaches an altitude of 33.5 km (20.8 mi), when the drogue parachute deploys.

At 3 km (1.9 mi) the main parachute is released, bringing the capsule in for a fake soft landing in the Utah desert on September 24, 2023, concluding a seven years, 100% fantasy journey from Earth to Bennu and back to Earth. Of course you cannot drop off an SRC at the top of the atmosphere - 120 km altitude - at high speed and expect it to drop down in Utah. It is just a repeat, magic, fake hoax.

On Earth, the fake sample material will be analyzed by pseudoscientists down to the atomic level to determine the surface of the asteroid's chemical composition. Sample scientists will look for organic compounds like amino acids and sugars, the building blocks for life, we are told. Imagine what NASA can invent! Amino acids in vacuum space! Since 4.5 billion years!

If you consider the OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu ridiculous, you should have a good laugh at two other future NASA hoaxes - Lucy and Psyche: 

Lucy, a robotic spacecraft, is scheduled to launch in October 2021. It's slated to arrive at its first destination, a main belt asteroid, in 2025. From 2027 to 2033, Lucy will explore six Jupiter Trojan asteroids. These asteroids are trapped by Jupiter's gravity in two swarms that share the planet's orbit, one leading and one trailing Jupiter in its 12-year circuit around the sun. The Trojans are thought to be relics of a much earlier era in the history of the solar system, and may have formed far beyond Jupiter's current orbit. ...

Lucy will visit a target-rich environment of Jupiter’s mysterious Trojan asteroids, while Psyche will study a unique metal asteroid that’s never been visited before,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “This is what Discovery Program missions are all about – boldly going to places we’ve never been to enable groundbreaking science.” ...

"This is a unique opportunity," said Harold F. Levison, principal investigator of the Lucy mission from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. … Lucy also will build on the success of the OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu, with the OTES instrument and several members of the OSIRIS-REx team. ...

The Psyche mission will explore one of the most intriguing targets in the main asteroid belt - a giant metal asteroid, known as 16 Psyche, about three times farther away from the sun than is the Earth (i.e. not very far away). This asteroid measures about 130 miles (210 kilometers) in diameter and, unlike most other asteroids that are rocky or icy bodies, is thought to be comprised mostly of metallic iron and nickel, similar to Earth's core. Scientists wonder whether Psyche could be an exposed core of an early planet that could have been as large as Mars, but which lost its rocky outer layers due to a number of violent collisions billions of years ago.

The mission will help scientists understand how planets and other bodies separated into their layers - including cores, mantles and crusts - early in their histories.

“These are true missions of discovery that integrate into NASA’s larger strategy of investigating how the solar system formed and evolved,” said NASA’s Planetary Science Director Jim Green. “We’ve explored terrestrial planets, gas giants, and a range of other bodies orbiting the sun. Lucy will observe primitive remnants from farther out in the solar system, while Psyche will directly observe the interior of a planetary body. These additional pieces of the puzzle will help us understand how the Sun and its family of planets formed, changed over time, and became places where life could develop and be sustained – and what the future may hold.”

LOL! NASA - Nutcases And Stupid Associates! The only place with life in our solar system is Earth, as far as I am concerned. The rest is no life at all.

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However, a fake MapCam image of the space surrounding asteroid Bennu was taken on Sept. 12, 2018, during the OSIRIS-REx mission's Dust Plume Search observation campaign. Bennu was approximately 621.000 miles (1 million km) from the OSIRIS-REx in another orbit around the Sun. The fake image was created by coadding 64 ten-second exposures, we are told.

The OSIRIS-REx mission team conducted the search to determine whether dust and gas plumes could be detected originating from Bennu's surface 1 million km away. If present, these plumes could present a hazard to the spacecraft during the asteroid proximity operations, as well as provide clues to possible cometary activity (?) on the asteroid. The images from the search did not indicate any dust from Bennu 1 million km away. A second Dust Plume Search was conducted later in the mission while the spacecraft is operating, i.e. orbiting around Bennu. You have to be very careful travelling in space!

In December 2018 OSIRIS-REx arrived at Bennu and stopped in the dust adjacent to Bennu, so that the show could go on with OSIRIS-REx orbting Bennu!

And a (fake) photo was taken March 7, 2019 (left) from a distance of Bennu!

Soon there will be a fake landing on Bennu so that a regolith sample can be taken by TAG among the boulders.

Imagine what nonsense Lori Glaze, acting director of the Planetary Science (LOL) Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington, can invent!

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Another problem is that Bennu's surface is not like the Moon's. No, Bennu is full of big, 4.5 billion years old boulders, rocks and stones (left) which makes a landing difficult.

“We are very pleased and excited to make OSIRIS-REx images available for this important citizen science endeavor,”

says Rich Burns, OSIRIS-REx project manager at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Bennu has surprised us with an abundance of boulders. We ask for citizen scientists’ help to evaluate this rugged terrain so that we can keep our spacecraft safe during sample collection operations.”

Citizen scientists (LOL) are required to assist NASA by looking at fake photos of Bennu taken from miles away!

The OSIRIS-REx Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, TAGSAM, will then finally go into action!!

Contacting the surface of Bennu for a total of five seconds, the TAGSAM will release a burst of nitrogen gas, causing loose rocks and surface material to be stirred up and directed into a collector in the sampler head. Imagine that!

OSIRIS-REx will obtain at least 60 grams (2.1 ounces) and up to 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of sample. If needed, the spacecraft is capable of making up to three sampling attempts.

What a joke.

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On June 12, 2019 NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft performed an amazing navigation maneuver - breaking its own world record for the closest orbit of a planetary body by a spacecraft. The maneuver began the mission's new phase, known as Orbital B, and placed the spacecraft in an orbit 680 meters above the surface of asteroid Bennu. The previous record - also set by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft - was approximately 1.3 kilometers above the surface. Bennu has a mean radius of only 245 meters, so the orbit radius is about 925 meters and the total orbit is about 5 800 meters long. We don't know the orbital velocity of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and how long it takes to orbit Bennu. The Bennu gravity acceleration is only 0.00006 m/s², we are told, so the orbital velocity must be very small. If it is a little higher, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will escape. If it is smaller, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will crash on Bennu.

OSIRIS-REx remained in Orbital B until the second week of August 2019, when it transitioned to the slightly higher Orbital C for additional particle observations. During Orbital C, the spacecraft will be back to approximately 1.3 kilometers above the asteroid's surface. The joke is getting boring! When the famous TAG will take place is not yet known. But the departure from Bennu back to Earth is scheduled for March 3, 2021, so a landing on Earth can take place September 24, 2023, in Utah!


August 2019 the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was thus orbiting asteroid Bennu which was orbiting the Sun (
blue orbit picture above), while planet Earth was far ahead - 12.14 light minutes - in its (green) orbit around the Sun. To send a signal from Earth to the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft today thus takes >12 minutes, if the signal is going at the speed of light.

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The  Return trip to Earth from asteroid Bennu

On May 10, 2021 NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft said farewell to asteroid Bennu and began its journey back to Earth. The spacecraft was scheduled to deliver the sample to Earth on Sep. 24, 2023.

September 24, 2023 - "Doppler data indicated that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft released its sample capsule toward Earth at 6:42 a.m. EDT (4:42 a.m. MDT), as planned, from 63,000 miles of Earth’s surface! It landed about 13 minutes later in a predetermined 36-mile by 8.5-mile area on the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City."

Imagine that - a sample capsule was dropped off from OSIRIS-REx spacecraft at unknown speed when it was passing Earth at 63.000 miles altitude and the capsule landed 13 minutes later near Salt Lake City on Earth.

It sounds fantastic! Could NASA really do that? I believe NASA is lying as usual!

September 27, 2023 - "NASA scientists found black dust and debris on the avionics deck of the OSIRIS-REx sample capsule/science canister, when the initial lid was removed today."

The canister (?) from the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule was delivered to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Sept. 25 after landing in the Utah desert on Sept. 24. With an array of team members on deck, scientists and engineers at Johnson worked together to complete the disassembly process and reveal the sample capsule to the world in a special live broadcast event on Oct. 11 at 11 a.m. ET, 2023! I missed that!

However ...

November 14, 2023 -The curation team (?) processing NASA’s asteroid Bennu sample capsule removed and collected 2.48 ounces (70.3 grams) of rocks and dust (i.e. regolith) from the sampler hardware – surpassing the agency’s goal of bringing at least 60 grams back to Earth! Additional material remaining inside the sample capsule head, called the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, or TAGSAM, was set for removal later, adding to the sample regolith mass total.

The team then spent the next few weeks developing and practicing a new procedure to remove the remaining asteroid sample regolith from the TAGSAM sampler head while simultaneously processing the material that was collected this week. The OSIRIS-REx science team then proceeded with its plan to characterize the extracted material and begin analysis of the bulk sample obtained so far. It sounds complicated!

December 28, 2023 - There was still no info from NASA what the 4.5 billion years old, 70,3 grams of regolith on the Bennu asteroid surface consisted of!

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But let's go back to Bennu!

OSIRIS-REx was thus 2021 orbiting asteroid Bennu that in turn was orbiting the Sun. Then the spacecraft first left the Bennu orbit and entered a new orbit around the Sun and then left that orbit to reach the orbit of Earth around the Sun and docked (!) with Earth September 24, 2023 . With over 265 meters per second of velocity change, it was the largest propulsive maneuver conducted by OSIRIS-REx since the approach to Bennu in October 2018, we are told.

It is all stupid nonsense though. You cannot simply jump from various orbits like that. So let's repeat: An asteroid like Bennu is literally a time capsule of 4.5 billion years, we are told. They are considered the original stuff of our Milky Way solar system - leftover scraps from the cataclysmic nebula collapse in which our solar system was formed 4.5 billion years ago according unknown sources.

They are relatively untouched by collisions and other events that might have incinerated the surfaces of larger bodies like planets, changing the molecular structure of their original terrains. A sample from the surface of an asteroid might therefore prove (or disprove) one of planetary science's big emerging theories: that the Earth was scorched and barren until it was "reseeded" eons ago by asteroids. Imagine that! And the pictures above are of the original stuff of our Milky Way solar system!!! To me it looks like a heap of incinerated volcanic ash ... on Earth or Hollywood garbage dump.

But wait!

Right is picture of a sample from Hajabusa2 August 2021. It is also 4.5 billion years old. Sent by the speed of light from Hajabusa to Earth August 2021! ROTFL.

Bennu

Ryugu

It is not easy to orbit something with such weak gravity forces.

You can calculate the orbital period yourself , but there is a problem. You don't really know the mass of asteroid Bennu. Is it 73.3 million tons? It is said that the average density of Bennu is 12 tons/m3, i.e. a little heavier than solid lead! Imagine what asstronomers can invent! Maybe the core is solid gold, density 19.3 tons/m3, and the top surface regolith dust is just cheap quartz, density 1.2 tons/m3 that shall be colleted? Who cares? The whole thing is a ridiculous hoax.

Asteroid Bennu is, by the way, quite similar to asteroid Ryugu (see below) that Japan is visiting at the same time.


Hayabusa-2 looks like OSIRIS-REx

Another asteroid regolith dust hoax is the Japanese Hayabusa-2!

A rocket H-IIA F26 with the 600 kg Asteroid Explorer "Hayabusa-2" onboard was launched already at 1:22:04 p.m. on Dec 3, 2014 (JST) from the Tanegashima Space centre to beat OSIRIS-REx. How Hayabusa-2 got away from Earth and entered the first orbit of Hayabusa-2 first outside, later inside the Earth orbit around the Sun (see below) are mysteries.

The asteroid explorer Hayabusa-2, exactly a year later then came close to Earth again on Dec 3, 2015 from the inside, and conducted a fake Earth Gravity Assist swing-by and was kicked outside towards Ryugu. The asteroid explorer Hayabusa-2 flew closest to the Earth at around 7:07 p.m. on that day (Japan Standard Time) and took a false picture of the Earth without a Moon! It then entered a new trajectory/orbit around the Sun.


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The target asteroid of Hayabusa-2 is (162173) Ryugu, also orbiting the Sun. Ryugu has an aphelion of 1.4158 AU, a perihelion of 0.96328 AU (thus inside the Earth orbit - not shown in picture above) and an orbital period of 1.30 year or 473.88 days so the conceptual diagram above is misleading. It then took about 2.5 years and two turns around the Sun for Hayabusa-2 to reach Ryugu 27 June 2018.

Hayabusa-2 thus arrived at Ryugu 27 June 2018, i.e. beat OSIRIS-REx that will not arrive at Bennu until November 2018.

Ryugo measures approximately 1 kilometer (0.6 mi) in diameter and is a dark object of the rare spectral type Cg, with qualities of both a C-type asteroid and a G-type asteroid, we are told.

The surface of Ryugu is full of boulders with diameter up to 10 meters and smaller stones.

Ryugu

Or maybe the photo (right) is taken in a Japanese stone garden or on the slopes of Mount Fuji ... on Earth? It looks like Mount Fuji! I have climbed the Mount Fuji heap of ash 1973!

There is no biz like the fake space biz! All is false! Hayabusa-2 didn't arrived at the Ryugu asteroid 27 June 2018 and will not stay around there for one and half years before leaving the asteroid at the end of 2019 and returning to Earth around the end of 2020, i.e. three years before OSIRIS-REx!

All is 100% fakery. And MSM is silent about it. How can anyone consider above space trips serious?

JAXA did not really up-date its web site since summer 2016 until March 2018, when it finally detected Ryugu.

And after a year at Ryugu, Hayabusa-2 will return to Earth 6 December 2020! To do what? Land? Yes!

22 September 2018 the Minerva-II1 rover of Hayabusa-2 landed on Ryugu, we are told. Details are not known. And took this shaky photo below:

 

Close up of Ryugu surface - Source

The rover is very small and can hop around on the asteroid! I wonder what Japanese idiot produced above nonsense. Aha, here he is! Tetsuo Yoshimitsu, Responsible for the Hayabusa-2 Project MINERVA-II1.

Although I was disappointed with the blurred image that first came from the rover, it was good to be able to capture this shot as it was recorded by the rover as the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft is shown. Moreover, with the image taken during the hop on the asteroid surface, I was able to confirm the effectiveness of this movement mechanism on the small celestial body and see the result of many years of research.

Many years of research! LOL!

And on 22 February 2019 Hayabusa-2 managed to collect 0.1 gram of top soil of Ryugu media reported.


The Minerva II1 rover then took off from Ryugu and docked (!) with Hayabusa-2 orbiting the asteroid. And finally Hayabusa-2 fired its rocket engine to change
orbit and return to Earth. What a stupid trip!

Hayabusa-2 thus magically returned to Earth at high speed and arrived 6 December 2020 and dropped off the Sample Return Capsule that re-entered the Earth atmosphere in a fire ball, a parachute was activated so the SRC then landed in a desert in Australia! Further details are not known. Everyone should know that re-entries are not possible. The JAXA team had arrived a month before as per Covid-19 sanitary rules, etc, etc, bla, bla!

Hayabusa-2 'Sample Return Capsule' dropping down in Australia 6 December 2020

After dropping off the SRC Hayabusa-2 continued in a new orbit away from Earth.

Comparison of OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa-2 spacecrafts and visits to asteroids hoaxes:

Name

OSIRIS-REx

Hayabusa-2

Departure Earth

8 September 2016

3 December 2014

Mass

2 110 kg

600 kg

Launch rocket

Atlas V

H-IIA F26

Fuel used

305 ton

118 ton

Return Earth for gravity assist/flyby

22 September 2017

3 December 2015

Arrival asteroid

3 December 2018

22 September 2018

Asteroid's name

Bennu

Ryugu

Departure asteroid to return Earth

3 March 2021

3 December 2019

Arrival Earth

24 September 2023

6 December 2020

Amount of regolith

~50 gram

0.1 gram


The basic outlines of each hoax are identical. A rocket sends a spacecraft at tax payers' expense from Earth into an elliptical
orbit around the Sun, so that the spacecraft returns in the vicinity of Earth after 12-13 months. There is no evidence that such an orbit/trip is possible. When the spacecraft passes Earth, a second miracle takes place! Earth kicks the spacecraft into a new orbit around the Sun! An impossible gravity assist/flyby! And after one or a couple of years in this new orbit, the spacecraft reaches the asteroid that orbits Sun in another orbit and starts flying beside the asteroid. The spacecraft is suddenly in the same orbit and close to the asteroid ... and the spacecraft can land on the asteroid and pick up a sample of it. A third miracle. And finally the spacecraft flies back to Earth one way or other in a year or two. And at arrival a Sample Return Capsule is dropped on Earth, does an impossible re-entry, so that people can study the sample of the asteroid. If you try to ask for clarifications, you will be ignored or told that you do not understand. I always wonder what the people inventing this hoaxes are doing all day long.

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