A spacecraft is set to deliver its rare cargo on Sunday \u002D\u002D and Canada is getting a piece of the interstellar bounty.
Canada contributed a laser altimeter to the mission — a device that measures altitude and distance — that has allowed Bennu to become the “most precisely surveyed body in our solar system,” says Cameron Dickinson, a staff engineer at Canadian space company MDA Ltd., which designed the Canadian component of the spacecraft.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx is the first asteroid sample-return mission in which Canada has participated — and it entitles the country to some of the space rocks. The mission selected Bennu because it was close enough to reach and large enough from which to secure a sample — and also because of what it is made of.
“We’re not on the same timeline as NASA to receive the sample _ that’s been understood since the beginning,” said Caroline-Emmanuelle Morisset, program scientist, space exploration development with the CSA. “The sample will reside at NASA for a time before it’s transferred to Canada.”Article content
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