TAGSAM
Regolith scoop used on asteroid Bennu by the NASA probe OSIRIS-REx / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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TAGSAM or Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism is a robotic arm on the OSIRIS-REx space probe designed and used for collecting a sample from asteroid 101955 Bennu.[1] OSIRIS-REx was launched in 2016. It arrived at asteroid Bennu in August 2018, and began scientific studies. It collected a sample of the material making up the surface of Bennu in 2020 and returned it to Earth in 2023.[1][2][3][4]