2021–Present: Lunar Return, New Stations and Deep-Space Science
OSIRIS-REx sample return
Delivered Bennu samples to Earth.
Era 6 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- 8 Sep 2016
- Lead / partner
- United States
- Target
- Earth / Bennu sample
- Category
- Asteroid sample return
- Status
- Success
- Vehicle
- Atlas V 411
- Mass
- unknown
- Orbit / trajectory
- Bennu-centric
- Duration
- 7 years (planned) at asteroid (actual) (elapsed)
Why it happened
OSIRIS-REx sample return flew during 2021–Present: Lunar Return, New Stations and Deep-Space Science, as part of United States's work toward earth / bennu sample. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: Delivered Bennu samples to Earth.
Results
Delivered Bennu samples to Earth.
Related missions
Sources & image credits
- NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · license: public-domain (source, checked 2026-08-23)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog
