Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism

NASA Deep Space Probe Reaches Asteroid Deemed Potential Earth Threat

Reuters 04/12/2018

A 'touch-and-go' manoeuvre of OSIRIS-REx is planned to snatch...

This artist's concept shows the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security - Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft contacting the asteroid Bennu with the Touch-And-Go Sample Arm Mechanism or TAGSAM. The mission aims to return a sample of Bennu's surface coating to Earth for study as well as return detailed information about the asteroid and it's trajectory. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Asteroid-Bound OSIRIS-REx Set to Begin New Quest for Life’s Origins

Sandhya Ramesh 07/09/2016

The ambitious seven-year mission will visit the asteroid Bennu...