OSIRIS-REx Mission Overview

  • Released Thursday, May 16th, 2013
  • Updated Friday, August 25th, 2023 at 12:18AM
  • ID: 10793

OSIRIS-REx will visit a Near Earth asteroid called Bennu and return with samples that may hold clues to the origins of the solar system and perhaps life itself. It will also investigate the asteroid's chance of impacting Earth in 2182. For the mission, NASA has selected the team led by Principal Investigator Dr. Dante Lauretta from the University of Arizona. NASA GSFC will manage the mission and Lockheed Martin Space Systems will build the spacecraft. Arizona State University will supply the OTES instrument; NASA GSFC will supply the OVIRS instrument; the Canadian Space Agency will supply the OLA instrument; the University of Arizona will supply the OCAMS camera suite; Harvard/MIT will supply the REXIS instrument; and Flight Dynamics will supply the KinetX instrument.

This narrated video provides an overiew of the OSIRIS-REx mission to observe asteroid Bennu and retreive a sample for study on Earth.

For complete transcript, click here.

For More Information

See http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/osiris-rex/index.html

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  • OSIRIS-REx Overview (ID: 2013040)
    Friday, May 17, 2013 at 4:00AM
    Produced by - Dan Jacob