Press Event
OSIRIS-REx Sample Reveal Press Conference
Johnson Space Center, Houston Atlas V 411 | OSIRIS-REx
The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston
News conference participants include:
- NASA Administrator Bill Nelson
- Francis McCubbin, deputy curation lead
- Daniel Glavin, sample analysis lead
- Dante Lauretta, principal investigator
Updates
LL2 • Oct. 11, 2023, 3:02 p.m.
Livestream has started
hitura-nobad • Sept. 15, 2023, 6:33 a.m.
Added Event
Related Information
Atlas V 411 | OSIRIS-REx
United Launch Alliance | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Sept. 8, 2016, 11:05 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
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.
Heliocentric N/ALong March 6A
Yaogan 40 Group 02
Launch Complex 9A - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China3 Chinese reconnaissance satellites of unknown purposes, officially reported as for "Electromagnetic environment probing".
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 6-91
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAA batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 15-3
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 26 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 6-93
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAA batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 6-84
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAA batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 6-75
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAA batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Firefly Alpha
FLTA006 (Message in a Booster)
Space Launch Complex 2W - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USASixth flight of the Firefly Alpha small satellite launcher, launching the demonstration mission for Lockheed Martin's new LM400 satellite bus, which …
Vega-C
Biomass
Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV) - Guiana Space Centre, French GuianaBiomass is an European Space Agency mission designed to measure the density of carbon stored in the world's forests. The spacecraft, built by Airbus …
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 12-10
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAA batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Atlas V 551
Project Kuiper (KA-01)
Space Launch Complex 41 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAProject Kuiper is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, this constellation will be managed…
