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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.
As OSIRIS-REx, it spent seven years on a round trip to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, which included time spent surveying, touching down on and collecting a sample from the space rock.
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.
OSIRIS-REx stands for "Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer", and was launched on 8 September 2016. [12] This mission plan was to orbit an asteroid, at the time named 1999 RQ 36 (now 101955 Bennu), by 2020. After extensive measurements, the spacecraft collected a sample from the asteroid's ...
Nasa sent its Osiris-Rex spacecraft to Bennu in 2016, and it touched down on the distant asteroid in 2020, and scooped up a piece. Since then, it has been flying back towards Earth to drop the ...
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2023-08-19: 30 x 15 km [2] [39] [40] Mission failed before landing attempt. Chandrayaan-3: ISRO: Moon: 2023-08-23: 4.5 x 2.5 km [41] or 4 x 2.4 km [42] OSIRIS-REx return capsule: NASA: Earth: 2023-09-24: 30 x 80 km, [43] 14 x 58 km, [44] or 12 x 30 km [45] Sample return from an asteroid. Capsule landed ~ 8 km from the center. [45] Peregrine ...
Quality photo of the OSIRIS-REx mission's sample return capsule upon landing in September 2023. The capsule returned samples collected from the Bennu asteroid in October 2020. Articles in which this image appears OSIRIS-REx, Sample-return mission, Comet Nucleus Dust and Organics Return, Extraterrestrial sample curation, +4 FP category for this ...