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engadget on 2023-09-25 21:21

OSIRIS-REx used a Tesla-esque navigation system to capture 4.5 billion-year-old regolith

NASA's novel sampler spacecraft relied on complex visual maps and inertial meters to figure its relation to the asteroid Bennu.

Ryan Olds

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