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The successful October 2020 sample collection, showing OSIRIS-REx touching down on the Nightingale sample site. The OSIRIS-REx mission of NASA's New Frontiers program was launched towards 101955 Bennu on 8 September 2016. On 3 December 2018, the spacecraft arrived at the asteroid Bennu after a two-year journey. [17]
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...