OSIRIS-REx Launches Toward Bennu, Marking Start of Historic Mission
Image Credit: ULA
On September 8th, 2016, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on an ULA Atlas V 411 rocket, beginning a 7-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, allowing scientists to learn about this never-before-visited asteroid up close. KinetX is proud to provide navigation services for this mission.
