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Photos: OSIRIS-REx departs for Asteroid Bennu atop Atlas V Rocket

September 9, 2016September 9, 2016 Patrick Blau 3820 Views OSIRIS-REx

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Explorer took the first leap in a long journey through the solar system on Thursday, lifting off from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas V rocket on a long-awaited mission to touch an asteroid to answer the long standing question on the origins life.

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Photos: Atlas V rolls out with OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Probe

September 7, 2016September 7, 2016 Patrick Blau 3196 Views

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 411 rocket emerges from its assembly building and rolls to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 for the launch of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission on a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back.

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OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Explorer Installed on Atlas V Rocket

August 29, 2016January 28, 2017 Patrick Blau 4077 Views OSIRIS-REx

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Explorer has taken its seat atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket that will give the spacecraft a boost next week to escape the Earth and set sail on a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back to accomplish the first U.S. sample return from an asteroid.

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Gallery: Atlas V completes Assembly to send OSIRIS-REx on Asteroid Exploration Mission

August 17, 2016August 29, 2016 Patrick Blau 2712 Views OSIRIS-REx

The two-stage United Launch Alliance Atlas V 411 rocket is assembled at Space Launch Complex 41 of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for the September 2016 launch window of the OSIRIS-REx mission.

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Gallery: OSIRIS-REx Solar Arrays Installation

August 17, 2016 Patrick Blau 2424 Views OSIRIS-REx

The OSIRIS-REx has its two power-generating solar arrays installed as part of the mission’s final processing campaign at Cape Canaveral followed by an illumination test to ensure the asteroid explorer will be able to generate power once arriving in space for its seven-year mission to asteroid Bennu and back.

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Gallery: OSIRIS-REx Final Processing

August 17, 2016August 29, 2016 Patrick Blau 2479 Views OSIRIS-REx

At the Kennedy Space Center, OSIRIS-REx goes through a multi-week campaign to finish assembly and checkouts prior to propellant loading and encapsulation in its protective payload fairing in which it will ride into space to embark on a seven-year asteroid sample return mission.

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Photos: Atlas V arrives at Cape Canaveral

August 17, 2016 Patrick Blau 1941 Views OSIRIS-REx

The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is delivered to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for final acceptance tests and stacking to get ready to provide OSIRIS-REx a lift into a heliocentric orbit to intercept asteroid Bennu for an unprecedented mission of exploration.

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Photos: OSIRIS-REx arrives at Florida Launch Site

August 17, 2016 Patrick Blau 2015 Views OSIRIS-REx

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is delivered to Cape Canaveral aboard an U.S. Air Force cargo aircraft to begin a final processing campaign ahead of a September 2016 liftoff atop an Atlas V rocket to kick off NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission.

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Gallery: OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Components

August 17, 2016 Patrick Blau 2127 Views OSIRIS-REx

Photos of the various subsystems and instruments of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, ready for installation on the spacecraft for a seven-year journey to Asteroid Bennu and back in NASA’s first-ever asteroid sample return mission.

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Gallery: OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Assembly & Testing

August 17, 2016 Patrick Blau 2291 Views OSIRIS-REx

The OSIRIS-REx asteroid exploration spacecraft completes assembly and testing and spacecraft builder Lockheed Martin’s facilities in preparation for a seven-year flight to and from asteroid Bennu to become America’s first asteroid sample return.

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Gallery: OSIRIS-REx Artist’s Illustrations

August 17, 2016 Patrick Blau 2637 Views OSIRIS-REx

These artist’s illustrations show the different phases of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission set for launch in 2016 on a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back.

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OSIRIS-REx Earth Gravity Assist sets up Distant Rendezvous with Asteroid Bennu
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OSIRIS-REx Earth Gravity Assist sets up Distant Rendezvous with Asteroid Bennu

September 22, 2017 Patrick Blau Comments Off on OSIRIS-REx Earth Gravity Assist sets up Distant Rendezvous with Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx aces Deep Space Maneuver, to Search for Trojan Asteroids in February
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx aces Deep Space Maneuver, to Search for Trojan Asteroids in February

January 19, 2017 Patrick Blau Comments Off on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx aces Deep Space Maneuver, to Search for Trojan Asteroids in February
Outbound OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Explorer passes Instrument Checks, adjusts Flight Path
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Outbound OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Explorer passes Instrument Checks, adjusts Flight Path

October 10, 2016 Patrick Blau Comments Off on Outbound OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Explorer passes Instrument Checks, adjusts Flight Path
Atlas V successfully sends NASA’s OSIRIS-REx on a Mission to Touch an Asteroid
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Atlas V successfully sends NASA’s OSIRIS-REx on a Mission to Touch an Asteroid

September 9, 2016 Patrick Blau Comments Off on Atlas V successfully sends NASA’s OSIRIS-REx on a Mission to Touch an Asteroid
Photos: OSIRIS-REx departs for Asteroid Bennu atop Atlas V Rocket
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Photos: OSIRIS-REx departs for Asteroid Bennu atop Atlas V Rocket

September 9, 2016 Patrick Blau Comments Off on Photos: OSIRIS-REx departs for Asteroid Bennu atop Atlas V Rocket




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