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The cost of the OSIRIS-REx mission is approximately US$800 million, [26] not including the Atlas V launch vehicle, which is about US$183.5 million. [27] The OSIRIS-APEX extended mission costs an additional US$200 million. [16] It is the third planetary science mission selected in the New Frontiers program, after Juno and New Horizons.
The first US mission sent to a near-Earth asteroid, OSIRIS-REx made history several times over. It performed the closest orbit of a planetary body by a spacecraft. Bennu became the smallest object ...
The OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned approximately 120 grams of material from Bennu to Earth in September 2023. The returned material is predominantly very dark, with reflectance values consistent with observations of Bennu's surface, though it contains some brighter inclusions and particles.
Pieces of Asteroid Bennu about to come to Earth as part of Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission. Andrew Griffin. September 22, 2023 at 12:07 PM. ... Nasa sent its Osiris-Rex spacecraft to Bennu in 2016 ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu to Earth Sunday, dropping the sample capsule in the Utah desert. ... 2023 at 6:33 PM. ... The mission now has a ...
OSIRIS-REx return capsule after landing at UTTR in 2023. The site has also been used as a landing site for sample return in NASA's planetary science missions, including comet material in the Stardust mission and the OSIRIS-REx mission to return material from asteroid (101955) Bennu. [4] [5]
OSIRIS-REx, which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, is NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission. The spacecraft has been on a ...
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to Earth on 24 September with samples collected from asteroid Bennu. [2] NASA launched the Psyche spacecraft on 13 October 2023, an orbiter mission that will explore the origin of planetary cores by studying the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche, on a Falcon Heavy launch vehicle.