{"id":6591,"date":"2014-11-05T07:43:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T12:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=6591"},"modified":"2014-11-05T08:03:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T13:03:35","slug":"mit-students-prepare-for-flight-of-osiris-rex-nasa-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2014\/11\/mit-students-prepare-for-flight-of-osiris-rex-nasa-mission.html","title":{"rendered":"MIT Students Prepare for Flight of OSIRIS-REx NASA Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

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OSIRIS-REx (<\/span>Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer)\u00a0is a NASA New Frontier\u2019s mission scheduled for launch in 2016 that will travel to the asteroid Bennu and return a pristine sample of the asteroid to Earth.\u00a0 The REgolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) is a student collaboration instrument on-board the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.\u00a0 REXIS is NASA risk Class D instrument and its design and development is largely student led.<\/p>\n

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David Brad Carte<\/strong> is a 2nd year masters student in the Aero\/Astro department of MIT and am the structural engineer on REXIS. His job\u00a0is concerned with designing, analyzing, and testing our hardware to ensure we meet structural margins and mission requirements related to mechanical\/structural\u00a0aspects of REXIS.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The engineering team consists of MIT graduate and undergraduate students and is led by staff at the MIT Space Systems Laboratory. The primary goal of REXIS is the education of science and engineering students through participation in the development of flight hardware.\u00a0In flight, REXIS will seek to contribute to the mission by providing an elemental abundance map of the asteroid to characterize Bennu among the known meteorite groups. REXIS is sensitive to X-rays between 0.5 and 7.5 keV and uses coded-aperture imaging to gather spatial information and map the distribution of Iron with 50 m spatial resolution.<\/span><\/p>\n

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More information regarding the project can be found here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you David for sharing with the SolidWorks Community, \u00a0Marie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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