MISSION NAME
OSIRIS-REx
Status
Success
DATE
8 SEP 2016
LAUNCH PROVIDER
United Launch Alliance
Launch Pad
Space Launch Complex 41
Description
The Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS REx) mission will be the first U.S. mission to carry samples from an asteroid back to Earth and will help scientists investigate how planets formed and how life began, as well as improve our understanding of asteroids that could impact Earth.
Atlas V 411
Rocket Description
Atlas V with 4m fairing, 1 SRB, 1 Centaur upper stage engine.