OSIRIS-REx#

This profile demonstrates the entire lifetime of the NASA OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) spacecraft on its way to the 101955 Bennu asteroid and its subsequent journey back to Earth. The profile starts at Earth before the spacecraft’s launch and has information throughout the entire mission until the sample’s 2023 landing back in Utah. Models of OSIRIS-REx and Bennu are available, as well as a preliminary instrument timing and some of the imaging campaign, which uses the same projection technique as employed in the New Horizons and Rosetta profiles.

Keyboard Shortcuts#

  • A Focus the camera on OSIRIS-REx

  • S Focus the camera on Bennu

  • F6 Sets the time to the launch time

  • F7 Sets the time to the Earth gravity assist

  • F8 Sets the time to the approach time at Bennu

  • F9 Sets the time to the preliminary survey of Bennu

  • F10 Sets the time to the orbital Bennu event

  • F11 Sets the time to the recon event