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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

So it was quite the feat with our navigation team and engineering team to fly that trajectory ... stick with you, launch dates, Earth return dates. What happens to OSIRIS-REx after it kind ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.