Space Mining 2016: NASA OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Updates Mission To Look For Trojan Asteroid

On its way to the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft is getting another task from scientists back on Earth. It’s been asked to keep an eye out for Trojan asteroids close to the home planet.
The ship will take advantage of the two-year trip for the added mission on its way to becoming the first to ship return asteroid samples to Earth, NASA announced Monday in a press release. The spacecraft has an onboard camera suite that will be activated in order to search for the T