OSIRIS-REx Launch and Deployment Animations

  • Released Wednesday, August 17, 2016
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OSIRIS-REx begins its journey to near-Earth asteroid Bennu from Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral, aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. In addition to the launch vehicle's liquid-fueled main engine, its 411 configuration includes a strap-on solid rocket booster and a Centaur upper stage. When the launch window opens on the evening of September 8, 2016, the Atlas V will lift OSIRIS-REx above the Florida coastline and propel it eastward over the night side of Earth. Fifty-nine minutes later, OSIRIS-REx will separate from the Centaur upper stage, point its solar arrays at the rising sun, and embark on its nearly two-year cruise to Bennu.

OSIRIS-REx's launch and Deployment movie. The animations for this video are listed below.

Launch from Kennedy Space Center.

Launch from Kennedy Space Center.

Launch from Kennedy Space Center.

Breaching through the clouds.

Solid rocket booster separation.

Main engine cutoff.

Launch vehicle before Stage 1 separation.

Main engine seperation

Centaur engine ignites

Fairing seperate from the Centaur

OSIRIS-REx seperates from the Centaur.

Solar panels deploy.

OSIRIS-REx departs Earth.

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

This page was originally published on Wednesday, August 17, 2016.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:48 PM EDT.

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