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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 21, 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
OSIRIS-REx is prepared for encapsulation in its payload fairing in 2016. This February, the probe searched for Trojan asteroids that accompany Earth in its solar orbit.

Looking to yesterday and tomorrow with OSIRIS-REx

Owen Zerambo
May 10, 2017
A NASA image of a small asteroid near Earth.

UA researcher observes smallest asteroid

Hannah Dahl
December 3, 2016
An artist’s concept of the Psyche spacecraft, a proposed mission for NASA’s Discovery program that would explore the huge metal Psyche asteroid from orbit

UA scientists discover water on metal asteroid

Chandler Donald
November 13, 2016
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.

Meet some Wildcats who worked on OSIRIS-REx

Jessica Suriano
September 14, 2016
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, enclosed in a payload fairing, is lifted at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket that is to lift OSIRIS-REx into space was stacked at SLC-41 so the spacecraft and fairing could be hoisted and bolted to the rocket promptly. The spacecraft will be sent to rendezvous with, survey and take a sample from an asteroid called Bennu.

OSIRIS-REx’s 34-day launch window opens Thursday

Chastity Laskey
September 6, 2016
Lunar and Planetary Lab and UA art students, led by Alfred Quiroz, a UA professor of art, collaborated to create a mural. It is meant to commemorate the OSIRIS-REx mission, and is on display on the west side of the Michael J. Drake building.

Mission to asteroid revs up

Jacob Witt
April 16, 2015
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