The OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission

Edward Beshore; Dante Lauretta; William Boynton; Christopher Shinohara; Brian Sutter; David Everett; Jonathan Gal-Edd; Ronald Mink; Michael Moreau; Jason Dworkin

doi:10.1109/AERO.2015.7118989

The OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission

Edward Beshore, Dante Lauretta, William Boynton, Christopher Shinohara, Brian Sutter, David Everett, Jonathan Gal-Edd, Ronald Mink, Michael Moreau, Jason Dworkin

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Abstract

In September of 2016, the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith EXplorer) spacecraft will depart for asteroid (101955) Bennu, and when it does, humanity will turn an important corner in the exploration of the Solar System. After arriving at the asteroid in the Fall of 2018, it will undertake a program of observations designed to select a site suitable for retrieving a sample that will be returned to the Earth in 2023. The third mission in NASA's New Frontiers program, OSIRIS-REx will obtain a minimum of 60 g of a primitive asteroid's surface, the largest sample of extra-terrestrial material returned to the Earth since the end of the Apollo lunar missions (Figure 1). OSIRIS-REx will also return a separate sample of the fine-grained surface material that is <1 mm in diameter.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2015 IEEE Aerospace Conference, AERO 2015
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479953790
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2015.7118989
State	Published - Jun 5 2015
Event	2015 IEEE Aerospace Conference, AERO 2015 - Big Sky, United States Duration: Mar 7 2015 → Mar 14 2015

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Name	IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings
Volume	2015-June
ISSN (Print)	1095-323X

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Other	2015 IEEE Aerospace Conference, AERO 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	Big Sky
Period	3/7/15 → 3/14/15

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Aerospace Engineering
Space and Planetary Science

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Beshore, E, Lauretta, D, Boynton, W, Shinohara, C, Sutter, B, Everett, D, Gal-Edd, J, Mink, R, Moreau, M & Dworkin, J 2015, The OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission. in 2015 IEEE Aerospace Conference, AERO 2015., 7118989, IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings, vol. 2015-June, IEEE Computer Society, 2015 IEEE Aerospace Conference, AERO 2015, Big Sky, United States, 3/7/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2015.7118989

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