This week, we are recapping noteworthy OSIRIS-REx mission events each day so you can catch up on anything you may have missed so far in NASA's first mission to collect a sample from an asteroid. (Post #3 in a series of four) Given Bennu's unexpectedly rough terrain, NASA's OSIRIS-REx team took extra time to …
This week, we are recapping noteworthy OSIRIS-REx mission events each day so you can catch up on anything you may have missed so far in NASA's first mission to collect a sample from an asteroid. (Post #2 in a series of four) After traveling 1.2 billion miles (2 billion kilometers) to Bennu, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft …
This week, we are recapping noteworthy OSIRIS-REx mission events each day so you can catch up on anything you may have missed so far in NASA's first mission to collect a sample from an asteroid. (Post #1 in a series of four) NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid, OSIRIS-REx, launched on Sept. 8, 2016, …
After seven years in space, including a nail-biting touchdown on Bennu in 2020 to gather up dust and rocks, NASA's intrepid OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is about to face one of its biggest challenges yet: deliver an asteroid sample to Earth while protecting it from heat, vibrations, and earthly contaminants. "Once the sample capsule touches down, …
Welcome to the OSIRIS-REx blog. Here you will find updates on NASA's first mission to collect an asteroid sample for analysis in labs around the globe. NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is cruising back to Earth now with samples it collected at the rocky surface of asteroid Bennu on Oct. 20, 2020. The spacecraft will deliver …
NASA's first asteroid sampling mission launched into space at 7:05 p.m. EDT Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, beginning a journey that could revolutionize our understanding of the early solar system. A United Launch Alliance Atlas V boosted NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer, onto a …
OSIRIS REx's solar arrays are providing power and the spacecraft is communicating with controllers on Earth, according to Geoffrey Yoder, acting associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. "Everything is working thus far," Yoder reported. "It's a great day for the space program." This concludes live countdown coverage, but stay tuned to NASA TV …
The team has received confirmation that OSIRIS-REx's two solar arrays have deployed.
"What a terrific performance by the combined Atlas V team," NASA Launch Manager Tim Dunn told NASA Commentator Mike Curie after the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft separated from the Centaur upper stage, signifying the end of tonight's launch and the start of the asteroid-sampler's mission to Bennu. "Not a single anomaly was worked during the countdown," Dunn said. "That's …
