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
Article
26 sectionsContents
- 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.