OSIRIS-REx Mission Design: Cruise and Arrival Animations

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    OSIRIS-REx Sheds Light on Hazardous Asteroid Bennu

    Aug. 11th, 2021

    OSIRIS-REx is improving our understanding of asteroid Bennu’s future impact hazard.Complete transcript available.Universal Production Music: “Time Particles” by Laetitia FrenodWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. On September 25, 2135, an asteroid called Bennu will make a close flyby of Earth. Our planet’s gravity will tweak Bennu’s path, making it a challenge to calculate its future trajectory. During the flyby, there is an extremely small chance that Bennu will pass through a “gravitational keyhole” – a region of space that would set it on just the right path to impact Earth, late in the 22nd century.Although it is difficult to determine the odds of this actually happening, new data from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have allowed scientists to better model how Bennu’s orbit will evolve over time, and to better calculate the probability of an impact. Now, a new paper from the OSIRIS-REx science team gives Bennu a 1:2700 (0.037%) chance of impacting Earth on September 24, 2182.Learn more about asteroid Bennu's updated impact hazard. For More InformationSee [NASA.gov](https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-spacecraft-provides-insight-into-asteroid-bennu-s-future-orbit/) Related pages

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    NASA Science Live: OSIRIS-REx - X Marks the Spot (Episode 13)

    Dec. 11th, 2019

    NASA Science Live: OSIRIS-REx - X Marks the Spot [Episode 13]Air Date: December, 12, 2019Watch this video on the ScienceAtNASA YouTube channel. This episode of NASA Science Live is broadcasting live from AGU in San Francisco. We have breaking news on our satellite OSIRIS-REx which is orbiting an asteroid named Bennu - and some of its mineral fragments could be older than the solar system itself. These microscopic grains of dust could be the same ones that spewed from dying stars and eventually came together to make the Sun and its planets nearly 4.6 billion years ago. And today we'll announce the site where OSIRIS-REx will attempt to collect at least 30 sugar packets worth of dirt and rocks from Bennu's surface. For More InformationSee [NASA.gov](https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex) Related pages

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    OSIRIS-REx Mission Design: Narrated Feature

    Dec. 2nd, 2018

    The OSIRIS-REx mission design includes complex trajectories, polar orbits, and reconnaissance flyovers that will allow the spacecraft to thoroughly explore asteroid Bennu.Music provided by Killer Tracks: Electric Cosmos, Inducing Waves, Newfound Lands, Crystal Sound Bath, ImperatumWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. OSIRIS-REx is the third mission in NASA’s New Frontiers Program. Its goal is to explore near-Earth asteroid Bennu, a remnant from the dawn of the solar system, and to return a sample of Bennu to Earth. OSIRIS-REx launched on September 8, 2016, and arrived at asteroid Bennu on December 3, 2018. The spacecraft is spending more than a year surveying and mapping Bennu before collecting a sample, ensuring that it can safely descend to the asteroid’s surface and retrieve a sample of high science value.This video illustrates the OSIRIS-REx mission design in detail, through artist concept animations, data visualizations, launch footage, and imagery from the spacecraft itself. Each phase of the mission is depicted, from launch through sample return, providing an in-depth look at this journey to Bennu and back. For More InformationSee [NASA.gov](https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex) Related pages

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