The capsule was “live,” the spokesperson said, meaning the batteries packed onto the capsule before the spacecraft’s 2016 launch would ... change to the OSIRIS-REx trajectory, specifically ...

24, 2023, will mark the end of OSIRIS-REx's primary 7-year mission that began with a launch in 2016 and sample ... The spacecraft performed one last trajectory-correcting maneuver on Sunday ...

(NASA Photo / Keegan Barber) Seven years and 4 billion miles after its launch, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully ... containing the sample on a trajectory that brought it down ...

This week. the spacecraft performed a trajectory correction maneuver to keep it headed toward Earth, where it is scheduled to arrive in September 2023. OSIRIS-REx Delivers Asteroid Bennu Samples ...

It's been seven years since the launch of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect and return ... years monitoring the spacecraft's speed and trajectory, and have calculated its landing down to ...

Around 2 a.m. Sunday, space agency and Lockheed Martin Space officials will double-check that Osiris-Rex’s trajectory is still ... Centennial-based United Launch Alliance launched Osiris-REx ...

To keep it on track, NASA recently executed the spacecraft’s first course correction maneuver by altering its trajectory towards our planet. The OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to deliver ...

Go OSIRIS-REx. - Everyone is go. Standing by for launch. 10 seconds ... And so we decided we were going to design a trajectory. The spacecraft is going to fly over a known area of the asteroid ...

The Arizona Daily Star has been counting down to the launch of the OSIRIS-REx mission for the past ... be able to better predict an asteroid’s trajectory by studying Bennu’s orbit and the ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft recently dropped off precious cargo — sending a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu tumbling through Earth’s atmosphere to land in the Utah desert.

After returning the samples to Earth, OSIRIS-REx is due to launch again in 2029 — this time, to the asteroid Apophis, another potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid laden with intriguing ...

OSIRIS-REx: Countdown to Launch is a half-hour AZPM original documentary providing an in-depth look at the science and scientists behind the asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx. It reveals ...