Spacecraft

OSIRIS-REx

Also Known As OSIRIS-APEX

Space Probe

Citation Formats

General Reference

Space and Astronomy Atlas. "OSIRIS-REx." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-space.interactiveatlas.org/spacecraft/osiris-rex.

APA Style

Space and Astronomy Atlas. (n.d.). OSIRIS-REx. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-space.interactiveatlas.org/spacecraft/osiris-rex

BibTeX

@misc{spaceandastronomyatlas-osiris-rex,
  author = {Space and Astronomy Atlas},
  title = {OSIRIS-REx},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-space.interactiveatlas.org/spacecraft/osiris-rex},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

A NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission built by Lockheed Martin, launched in September 2016 to visit and collect samples from the carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu. It collected a 121.6 gram sample from Bennu in October 2020 and returned it to Earth in September 2023, the first US spacecraft to return samples from an asteroid; the spacecraft itself was then renamed OSIRIS-APEX for a follow-up mission to asteroid 99942 Apophis.

Facts

Spacecraft Type

Space Probe 1

Launch Date

2016-09-08 1

Manufacturer

Lockheed Martin 1

Status

Operational; renamed OSIRIS-APEX and redirected toward asteroid 99942 Apophis after its primary mission ended. 1

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