Sunday Space Links

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ESA: The European Space Agency will use left-over hardware from the Dawn mission for the main imagers on the Hera mission to asteroid Didymos, projected to launch in 2023. Hera will be targeting the same body as NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), representing the first asteroidial science collaboration.

NASA: Unexpected particle plumes erupting from Bennu and higher levels of surface debris are forcing ground controllers to modify mission plans for OSIRIS-REx. While mission planners do not believe the particles represent a serious risk to the spacecraft, the preponderance of boulders is forcing them to rethink the planned sample collection maneuver.

AIAA: Collins Aerospace and Sierra Nevada Corporation are competing to develop next-generation in-space waste-disposal systems. Most astronaut trash is currently returned to Terra in uncontrolled spacecraft; longer-term missions will need better ways to deal with the refuse of human habitation.

ESA: The X-ray Multi-Mirror Newton space telescope discovers two plumes of x-ray emitting material extending from the galactic core, providing an anticipated link between known gas clouds extending away from the galactic plane and the supermassive black hole at its center.

Comments

[cassini]

[here from latest things - nice round up of links, been wondering where to get my space expo news fix around here on dw ]