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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Speeds Toward Asteroid Rendezvous
September 8, 2016 -NASA's first asteroid sampling mission launched into space at 7:05 p.m. EDT Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, beginning a journey that could revolutionize our understanding of the early solar...
PI BLOG: The Atlas V 411 AV-067: Our Ride to Space
August 23, 2016 -OSIRIS-REx is scheduled for lift-off from Space Launch Complex-41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on September 8, 2016 at 7:05 pm EDT. The daily launch window is almost two hours long, extending to 9:00 pm EDT. The entire...
NASA Prepares to Launch First U.S. Asteroid Sample Return Mission
August 17, 2016 -NASA is preparing to launch its first mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth. The mission will help scientists investigate how planets formed and how life began, as well as improve our understanding of asteroids that could...
PI BLOG: 39 Days to Launch – What’s Left to Get Done?
July 31, 2016 -With only 39 days to go until we launch OSIRIS-REx our schedule is packed with activities. Here is a quick rundown of what the team has left to do to get ready to blast this asteroid-sampling robot into space....
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Will Have a Map for That
May 25, 2016 -On Sept. 8, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to launch for terra incognita: the unknown surface of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Like expeditions of old, OSIRIS-REx’s mission includes mapping the exotic terrain it...
PI BLOG: The Journey to Kennedy Space Center
May 24, 2016 -The OSIRIS-REx project continues to progress seamlessly through the Assembly, Test, and Launch Operations (ATLO) phase. We are now done with the AT portion of this phase and have started LO. The test phase ended with the completion of the...
NASA Begins Launch Preparations for the First U.S. Asteroid Sampling Mission
May 23, 2016 -NASA's first spacecraft designed to return a piece of an asteroid to Earth arrived Friday, May 20, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and has begun final preparations in advance of its September launch. The Origins,...
PI BLOG: Engineering an Impact on the New Frontier
April 4, 2016 -It was a chilly December morning; I was 10 years old and sitting on the cold, hard floor of my elementary school library … too enthralled and focused on a 20-inch television screen to realize how uncomfortable I was. [...]...
PI BLOG: OSIRIS-REx Passes EMI/EMC Testing
February 24, 2016 -The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has completed the Electromagnetic Interference/Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMI/EMC) system level test. This test has three objectives. The first objective is to test for Radiated Emissions, which are the...
NASA Invites Public to Send Artwork to an Asteroid
February 19, 2016 -NASA is calling all space enthusiasts to send their artistic endeavors on a journey aboard NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft. This will be the first U.S....