OSIRIS-REx Resource Page

Recorded audio from the OSIRIS-REx approach media teleconference on August 24, 2018, with accompanying presenter graphics. Individual graphics are available below.Watch this video on the NASA.gov Video YouTube channel. NASA is hosting a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 24, to provide an update on upcoming activities related to the agency’s first mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth.The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft, which launched on Sept. 8, 2016, started asteroid science operations last week, began imaging asteroid Bennu for the first time, and is now preparing to conduct the necessary approach maneuvers to rendezvous with Bennu on Dec. 3. The mission represents a valuable opportunity to learn more about the origins of our solar system, the sources of water and organic molecules on Earth, and the hazards and resources in near-Earth space. The briefing participants are:Lori Glaze, acting director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA HeadquartersDante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona, TucsonMichael Moreau, OSIRIS-REx flight dynamics system manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterSandy Freund, OSIRIS-REx mission support area manager at Lockheed Martin SpaceFor more information, go to nasa.gov/osiris-rex or asteroidmission.org. 1. Jones - OSIRIS-REx Approach Phase opening remarksCredit: NASA s Goddard Space Flight Center 3. Moreau - Small bodies and asteroid Bennu to scaleCredit: NASA/University of Arizona/ESA/JAXA 4. Moreau - Optical Navigation phasesCredit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona 1. Freund - The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft at Lockheed MartinCredit: Lockheed Martin Space 2. Freund - The OSIRIS-REx Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM)Credit: Lockheed Martin Space 3. Freund - TAGSAM deployment test at Lockheed MartinCredit: Lockheed Martin Space 4. Freund - TAGSAM deployment during Approach PhaseCredit: Lockheed Martin Space

NASA s never been done before? 4.What will scientists do with the asteroid sample once it gets to Earth?5.How have previous missions helped NASA perfect the art of the gravity assist?6.Bennu is just one of hundreds of thousands of asteroids out there. How can studying asteroids keep us safe?Live Shot Details:Location: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Greenbelt, MarylandScientists:Dr. Jim Garvin / NASA Goddard Chief Scientist Dr. Christina Richey / OSIRIS-REx Deputy Program ScientistDr. Michelle Thaller/ NASA Scientist B-roll and canned interviews to be added on Thursday, Sept 21OSIRIS is pronounced: O-Si-Ris B-roll for OSIRIS-REx Live Shots on September 22nd, 2017 Canned interview with NASA Scientist Dr. Michelle Thaller with graphics rolled into answers. Full transcript is included. Answers are separated by slates with the questions Canned interview with NASA Goddard Chief Scientist Dr. Jim Garvin looking off camera. Includes full transcript. Answers are separated by slates with the questions on them. TRT 4:41 Canned interview without graphics rolled into the answer. Scientist is NASA Scientist Dr. Michelle Thaller. TRT 3:51. Includes full transcript. Question slates separate the answers. For More InformationSee [nasa.gov/osirisrex](nasa.gov/osirisrex)

NASA s OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.

NASA scientists are available on Thursday, Sept. 8th from 6:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. and again 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. EDT – just hours before NASA’s FIRST-EVER asteroid sample return mission launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida – to find out why NASA is going to this asteroid, and what mysteries it might unlock about how life started on Earth and whether life could have started elsewhere in our solar system. We also have a Spanish-speaking scientist available. On Thursday September 8th at 7:05 p.m. EDT, NASA will launch the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer – or OSIRIS-REx – spacecraft that will travel to a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu. Asteroids are rocky debris left over from the dawn of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago. They’ve changed little over time, making Bennu a pristine time capsule of the building blocks of our solar system. Crews in the local Washington/Baltimore area are invited out to Goddard Space Flight Center for a launch viewing event + availability for interviews with scientists Sept 8th from 4:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. EDT at the Visitors Center. RSVP information is here.To book a window – contact: Michelle Handleman at michelle.z.handleman@nasa.gov.HD Satellite Coordinates for AMC9-K23AB: AMC-9 Ku-band Xp 23 Slot AB| 83.0 ° W Longitude | DL 12151.0 MHz | Horizontal Polarity | QPSK/DVB-S | FEC 3/4 | SR 13.235 Mbps | DR 18.2954 MHz | HD 720p | Format MPEG2 | Chroma Level 4:2:0 | Audio EmbeddedSuggested Questions:1. Later today NASA will launch its first-ever sample return mission to an asteroid. Tell us more about this mission.2. Could asteroids contain the chemical precursors for life on Earth and in the solar system?3. You have a really interesting way to “kiss the asteroid” to collect a sample. Can you show us how you’re going do that?4. What will scientists do with the sample once it returns to Earth? 5. Where can we learn more? Live Shot Details:Locations:Cape Canaveral Air Force Station/ Cape Canaveral, Florida (from 6am-9am and 4pm-6pm) NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Greenbelt, Maryland (from 9am-2pm)Scientists:Dr. Jim Green / Director, NASA Planetary Science DivisionDr. Ellen Stofan / NASA Chief ScientistDr. Jim Garvin / NASA Goddard Chief ScientistDr. Lucy McFadden / NASA Scientist Dr. Geronimo Villanueva/ NASA Scientist [Interviews in Spanish] B-Roll that goes along with the live shots.Click for a gallery of OSIRIS-REx VIDEO AND GRAPHICSClick for more information about OSIRIS-REx OSIRIS-REx Interview with NASA Goddard Chief Scientist, Dr. Jim Garvin NASA Goddard Chief Scientist Dr. Jim Garvin answers questions about the OSIRIS-REx mission. Includes full text of his soundbites.Answers the following questions:Tell us about NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sample return mission.What scientific discoveries are possible with this mission?Could asteroids contain the chemical precursors for life on Earth and in the solar system?How excited are you about this mission?What will asteroid Bennu teach us about the universe?What is the difference between an asteroid, comet and meteor? Short 1:00 minute SOT from Dr. Jim Garvin about the OSIRIS-REx mission. Includes transcript For More InformationSee [www.nasa.gov/osirisrex](www.nasa.gov/osirisrex)

OSIRIS-REx begins its journey to near-Earth asteroid Bennu from Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral, aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. In addition to the launch vehicle s launch and Deployment movie. The animations for this video are listed below. Launch from Kennedy Space Center. Launch from Kennedy Space Center. Launch from Kennedy Space Center. Breaching through the clouds. Solid rocket booster separation. Main engine cutoff. Launch vehicle before Stage 1 separation. Main engine seperation Centaur engine ignites Fairing seperate from the Centaur OSIRIS-REx seperates from the Centaur. Solar panels deploy. OSIRIS-REx departs Earth.

After nine months in orbit around asteroid Bennu, OSIRIS-REx will begin the process of maneuvering closer to the surface in preparation of the sample collection event. Once the sample site has been selected, OSIRIS-REx will break from its polar orbit to practice three flyovers of the site at increasing proximities, eventually matching Bennu s soil. This will force loose dust, dirt, and rocks upward into the TAGSAM head, trapping the material inside. OSIRIS-REx will then weigh and stow the captured sample for return to Earth in 2023. OSIRIS-REx approaches Bennu TAG Arm Deploy TAG Arm Deploy Reverse OSIRIS-REx desending to Bennu OSIRIS-REx approach continued TAGSAM getting closer OSIRIS-REx almost there Contact OSIRIS-REx Pulls away TAG Maneuver Interior Cutaway OSIRIS-REx backs away from Bennu Sample Verification OCAMS SamCam Sample Verification OCAMS Sam Cam 2 Sample Mass Measurement Sample Stowage Sequence Sample Stowage Sequence Closeup OSIRIS-REx Stows the TAG Arm Returning to Earth

OSIRIS-REx will spend over a year orbiting and mapping asteroid Bennu in preparation of the mission s main science goal – collecting a sample of Bennu for return to Earth in 2023. Edited movie of mapping animations OSIRIS-REx arrival at Bennu. Bennu reveal. Detailed survey of Bennu. OSIRIS-REx mapping Bennu. OSIRIS-REx flying over Bennu OSIRIS-REx mapping Bennu

On September 24, 2023, OSIRIS-REx will return its sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth. The sample return capsule will detach from the spacecraft, perform an entry, descent and landing sequence, and touch down at the UTTR facility in Utah. The Bennu samples will be taken to Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas for curation, and will be studied by scientists around the world for decades to come. OSIRIS-REx returns to Earth with its sample of asteroid Bennu. After releasing the sample return capsule on September 24, 2023, the spacecraft will go into orbit around the Sun.Watch this video on the NASA.gov Video YouTube channel. SRC arrives back at Earth SRC seperates from OSIRIS-REx SRC heading towards Earth SRC ReEntry Heading towards landing site Parachute deploys SRC desending Touchdown Transport Sample Open Capsule

OSIRIS-REx is a solar-powered spacecraft built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems. The spacecraft bus measures 3.2 meters high by 2.4 meters wide (about 10x8 feet). With its solar arrays deployed, the spacecraft spans 6.2 meters in length (over 20 feet). A high-gain antenna on the sun-pointed side of OSIRIS-REx enables communication with Earth. On the opposite side is the TAGSAM, a 3.4-meter-long, folding arm that will reach out and grab a sample of the mission and the student-built REXIS X-ray spectrometer for detecting individual atomic elements.Mission planners will use this suite of instruments to determine the best location on Bennu for collecting the sample, which OSIRIS-REx will return to Earth in 2023. REXIS Instrument on OSIRIS-REx. OVIRS Instrument on OSIRIS-REx. OTES Instrument on OSIRIS-REx. OCAMS Instrument on OSIRIS-REx. OLA Instrument on OSIRIS-REx.

After leaving Earth in September 2016, OSIRIS-REx spent two years traveling to asteroid Bennu. In September 2017 it flew by Earth for a gravity assist, putting the spacecraft in the right orbital inclination to rendezvous with Bennu in December 2018. OSIRIS-REx makes its outbound cruise to asteroid Bennu.

OSIRIS-REx is on a mission to study asteroid Bennu and return a sample to Earth. The graphics on this page were created to support the OSIRIS-REx L-14 press briefing at NASA headquarters on August 17, 2016. All videos are available for download in broadcast quality. The majority of the videos do not contain audio. Links to 4K-resolution versions appear at the bottom of the page.Watch the OSIRIS-REx L-14 press conference.Learn more about OSIRIS-REx from NASA and the University of Arizona. 1. Gordon Johnston - Spacecraft introduction 2. Gordon Johnston - OSIRIS-REx mission timeline 3. Gordon Johnston - OSIRIS-REx mission partners 1. Jeffrey Grossman - New Frontiers overview 2. Jeffrey Grossman - Asteroid exploration timeline 3. Jeffrey Grossman - OSIRIS-REx exploration 4. Jeffrey Grossman - Previous sample return missions 1. Dante Lauretta - OSIRIS-REx mission acronym 2. Dante Lauretta - Origins 3. Dante Lauretta - Spectral Interpretation 4. Dante Lauretta - Resource Identification 5. Dante Lauretta - Security 6. Dante Lauretta - Regolith Explorer 1. Christina Richey - Asteroid Bennu accessibility 2. Christina Richey - Asteroid Bennu size 3. Christina Richey - Asteroid Bennu composition 1. Rich Kuhns - OSIRIS-REx construction and shipping 2. Rich Kuhns - TAGSAM testing 3. Rich Kuhns - TAGSAM animation 1. Mike Donnelly - OSIRIS-REx instruments 2. Mike Donnelly - Kennedy Space Center arrival TV Backdrop - Large-format image of OSIRIS-REx preparing to sample asteroid Bennu For More InformationSee [NASA.gov](http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/osiris-rex/index.html)