OSIRIS-REx OSIRIS-APEX asteroid sample-return spacecraft family
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected and returned a sample from asteroid Bennu in 2023; after capsule release, the spacecraft was renamed OSIRIS-APEX for an extended mission to study asteroid Apophis.
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Identity
- Aliases
- OSIRIS-RExOrigins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith ExplorerOSIRIS-APEX
- Family Name
- OSIRIS-REx
- Full Name
- OSIRIS-REx OSIRIS-APEX asteroid sample-return spacecraft family
- Roles
- interplanetary_probesample_returnresearch
- Status
- active
- Type
- spacecraft
Details
- Description
- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected and returned a sample from asteroid Bennu in 2023; after capsule release, the spacecraft was renamed OSIRIS-APEX for an extended mission to study asteroid Apophis.
- First Flight Year
- 2,016
Links
- Official Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/osiris-rex/
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 22:23:20 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 13, 2026 at 22:23:20 UTC