OSIRIS-REx Mission Design: Cruise and Arrival Animations
After launching from Earth on September 8, 2016, OSIRIS-REx spent over two years on its outbound cruise to asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft approached the asteroid in August 2018 and captured its first images of Bennu using its long-range camera, PolyCam. OSIRIS-REx officially arrived at Bennu on December 3, 2018, and began studying the asteroid in preparation for sample collection in 2020.
OSIRIS-REx Cruise to Bennu
Stellar Navigation
Bennu Arrival Extended version
Bennu Arrival
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
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Animators
- Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Michael Lentz (USRA)
- Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (USRA)
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Producer
- Dan Gallagher (USRA)
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Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Release date
This page was originally published on Friday, November 30, 2018.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:46 PM EDT.