OSIRIS-REx Cruise Animation
After leaving Earth in September 2016, OSIRIS-REx spent two years traveling to asteroid Bennu. In September 2017 it flew by Earth for a gravity assist, putting the spacecraft in the right orbital inclination to rendezvous with Bennu in December 2018.
OSIRIS-REx makes its outbound cruise to asteroid Bennu.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
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Animators
- Walt Feimer (HTSI)
- Michael Lentz (USRA)
- Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (USRA)
- Lisa Poje (USRA)
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Scientists
- Dante Lauretta (The University of Arizona)
- Edward Beshore (The University of Arizona)
- Jason Dworkin (NASA/GSFC)
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Producer
- Dan Gallagher (USRA)
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Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Release date
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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