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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 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.
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.
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 ...
After a process that took a couple of days, the OSIRIS-REx mission has stowed away the sample of regolith that it snatched from an asteroid last week. NASA confirms OSIRIS-REx has secured its ...
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OSIRIS-REx: 8 September 2016 Asteroid sample return mission (sample returned 24 September 2023 [needs update]) [459] [460] InSight: 5 May 2018 Mars lander [461] [462] Queqiao: 20 May 2018 Relay satellite for Chang'e 4 in Halo orbit around Earth–Moon L 2 Lagrange point [463] Parker Solar Probe: 12 August 2018 Solar corona probe, closest solar ...
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