OSIRIS-REx

Also known as Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer, OSIRIS-APEX, New Frontiers 3

thumb|OSIRIS-REx in Launch Configuration

Key facts

Spaceflight/IP.sample_mass: ~
Spaceflight/IP.type: flyby
Spaceflight.name: OSIRIS-RExOSIRIS-APEX
Spaceflight.names_list: OSIRIS-RExOSIRIS-APEX
Spaceflight.image: OSIRIS-REx spacecraft model.png
Spaceflight.image_caption: Artist's rendering of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft
Spaceflight.mission_type: Asteroid sample return
Spaceflight.operator: NASA / Lockheed Martin
Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID: 2016-055A
Spaceflight.SATCAT: 41757
Spaceflight.mission_duration: 7 years (planned) at asteroid (actual) (elapsed)
Spaceflight.manufacturer: Lockheed Martin
Spaceflight.power: 1226 to 3000 watts
Spaceflight.launch_date: 8 September 2016, 23:05 UTC
Spaceflight.launch_rocket: Atlas V 411 (AV-067)
Spaceflight.launch_site: Cape Canaveral SLC-41
Spaceflight.launch_contractor: United Launch Alliance (ULA)
Spaceflight.disposal_type: Sample Return Capsule: Recovered

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Mission
Launch
Cruise phase
Arrival and survey
Sample acquisition
Procedure
Operations
Sample return
Extended mission OSIRIS-APEX
Name
Science objectives
Specifications
Instruments
OCAMS
OVIRS
OTES
REXIS
OLA
TAGSAM
Cooperation with JAXA
OSIRIS-REx II
Gallery
See also
Notes
References
External links

thumb|OSIRIS-REx in Launch Configuration

OSIRIS-REx was a NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission that visited and collected samples from 101955 Bennu, a carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid. The material, returned in September 2023, is expected to enable scientists to learn more about the formation and evolution of the Solar System, its initial stages of planet formation, and the source of organic compounds that led to the formation of life on Earth. Following the completion of the primary OSIRIS-REx (Regolith Explorer) mission, the spacecraft, renamed as OSIRIS-APEX (Apophis Explorer), began a follow-up mission to asteroid 99942 Apophis.

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