NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX Unscathed After Searing Pass of Sun

Mission engineers were confident NASAs OSIRIS-APEX Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification Apophis Explorer spacecraft could weather its closest ever pass of the Sun on Jan. 2, 2024. Their models had predicted that, despite traveling 25 million miles closer to the heat of the Sun than it was originally designed to, OSIRIS-APEX and its components . https://science.nasa.gov/s...
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