OSIRIS-REx
OrbiterOrbiter with a 3.4 m sampling arm that touched Bennu for a few seconds to grab loose material.
- Launch mass
- 2,110 kg
- Dry mass
- 834 kg
- Size
- 3.2 m × 2.4 m, span 6.2 m
- Power
- Solar
- Built by
- Lockheed Martin
- Designator
- 2016-055A
Image: NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) / University of Arizona / Lockheed Martin · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
- Launched
- 8 Sept 201623:05:00 UTC
- Active for
- 10 years 2 months
- Destinations
- Bennu
A NASA mission that collected 121 grams of material from the asteroid Bennu and delivered it to Earth in September 2023. The spacecraft, renamed OSIRIS-APEX, is now on its way to the asteroid Apophis.
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Spacecraft
Active
Mission details from science.nasa.gov.