Mar 22, 2019

OSIRIS-REx continues operations in the mission’s Detailed Survey: Baseball Diamond phase, which comprises a total of seven pole-to-pole flybys of Bennu. On Mar. 16 the spacecraft successfully executed the M5D maneuver to position itself at the starting point of the third observation leg, and on Mar. 19, it executed the M6D maneuver to begin the third flyby. During this leg, the spacecraft observed Bennu from the 10:00 am local solar time position from a distance of 3.7 km. Both the PolyCam camera and the OTES spectrometer took observations during the pass.