OSIRIS-REx
Mission type Sample return
Operator NASA
Launch date 8 September 2016
Target 101955 Bennu
Arrival at target 3 December 2018
Primary objective Survey and collect a sample from a carbon-rich near-Earth asteroid
Status Operational
OSIRIS-REx is the third part of NASA’s New Frontiers Program, succeeding the likes of New Horizons and Juno. All three are completely reshaping our understanding of the Solar System, and OSIRIS-REx is doing so at the asteroid 101955 Bennu.
The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRISREx) spacecraft was launched with a game plan to break records and do something that hasn’t been done since the Apollo era. “It’s
