Array-Based Seismic Measurements of OSIRIS-REx’s Re-Entry

Abstract The return home of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in September 2023 marked only the fifth time that an artificial object entered the Earth’s atmosphere at interplanetary velocities. Although rare, such events serve as valuable analogs for natural meteoroid re-entries; enabling study of hypersonic dynamics, shock wave generation, and acoustic-to-seismic coupling. Here, we report on the signatures recorded by a dense (100 m scale) 11-station array located almost directly underneath the capsule’s point of peak atmospheric heating in northern Nevada. Seismic data are presented, which allow inferences to be made about the shape of the shock wave’s footprint on the surface, the capsule’s trajectory, and its flight parameters.

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Seismological Research Letters
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2025-02-12
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https://doi.org/10.1785/0220240339
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5
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Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
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Abstract The return home of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in September 2023 marked only the fifth time that an artificial object entered the Earth’s atmosphere at interplanetary velocities. Although rare, such events serve as valuable analogs for natural meteoroid re-entries; enabling study of hypersonic dynamics, shock wave generation, and acoustic-to-seismic coupling. Here, we report on the signatures recorded by a dense (100 m scale) 11-station array located almost directly underneath the capsule’s point of peak atmospheric heating in northern Nevada. Seismic data are presented, which allow inferences to be made about the shape of the shock wave’s footprint on the surface, the capsule’s trajectory, and its flight parameters.

Seismological Research LettersVol. 96(5)
New Mexico State University (US), Karachi Institute of Economics and Technology (PK), University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien (AT), Western University (CA), University of Maryland, Baltimore (US), Ames Research Center (US), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR), Planetary Science Institute (US), University of Leeds (GB), Langley Research Center (US), Los Alamos National Laboratory (US), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE), Johns Hopkins University (US), TU Wien (AT), University of Kansas (US), Southern Methodist University (US), University of Southern Queensland (AU), University of Colorado Boulder (US), University of Karachi (PK), Curtin University (AU), Royal Observatory of Belgium (BE), Johns Hopkins Medicine (US), Bowie State University (US), Institute for Basic Science (KR), Sandia National Laboratories (US), NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (GB), Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (US), Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur (FR), Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (GB), Geological Survey of Alabama (US), International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (AU), Géoazur (FR), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (FR), Imperial College London (GB), University of Baltimore (US), University of Maryland, College Park (US), University of Glasgow (GB), The University of Texas at Austin (US), University of Edinburgh (GB)
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