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The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft launches aboard a ULA Atlas V 411 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

UA-led mission accomplished: Asteroid sample returns to Earth

Danielle Hartshorn
September 22, 2023
The transmission electron microscope is one of many high-quality machines that researchers at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory use. The recent grant the LPL received from NASA will help to support the cost of machines like the TEM, which allows scientists to see individual atoms.

Planetary sciences: Upcoming plans for the UA’s OSIRIS-REx mission

Kanishka Chinnaraj
February 21, 2023
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASAs Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off on from Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth. Photo by Joel Kowsky / NASA

First-ever sampling of asteroid’s surface

Jillian Bartsch
October 18, 2020
(left to right) University of Arizona President Robert Robbins, Dante Lauretta, and student Keara Burke hold a press conference about OSIRIS-REx on Monday in the Stevie Eller Dance Theatre.

OSIRIS-REx arrives to asteroid Bennu after two years of space travel

Alana Minkler
December 4, 2018
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASAs Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off on from Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth. Photo by Joel Kowsky / NASA

Three science events to look out for in 2017

Hannah Dahl
January 11, 2017
ULAs Atlas V rocket breaks free of its tethers at ignition. The 370-ton rocket sends the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on it’s seven-year round-trip journey to asteroid Bennu. Developed in part by the UA, this spacecraft will be the first in history to return samples of an asteroid to Earth. This photo was taken by a sound-triggered camera at Cape Canaveral Air Force Stations Launch Complex 41.

To Infinity and Beyond: OSIRIS-REx deputy principal investigator retires after years of service

Hannah Dahl
October 3, 2016
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