NASA provides live coverage of the arrival of spacecraft to the asteroid that could have answers to the origin of our solar system

NASA provides live coverage of the arrival of spacecraft to the asteroid that could have answers to the origin of our solar system

Press release
From: Goddard Space Flight Center
Posted: Wednesday, 28 November 2018

The NASIR probe (OSIRIS-REx) Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, NASA's Safety and Security Explorer is due to get to its targeted asteroid, Bennu, on Monday, December 3rd at around noon EST.

NASA will broadcast a live event from 11:45 am to 12:15 pm EST to highlight the arrival of the agency's first asteroid sample return mission. The program will come from the OSIRIS-REx control mission at the Lockheed Martin Space facility in Littleton, Colorado, and will be broadcast on NASA Television, Facebook Live, Ustream, YouTube and the agency's website. NASA TV will also broadcast an arrival program starting at 11:15 am EST.

OSIRIS-REx was launched in September 2016 and is slowly approaching Bennu. The spacecraft will spend almost a year examining the asteroid with five scientific instruments in order to choose a safe and scientifically interesting location for sample collection. OSIRIS-REx will return the sample to Earth in September 2023.

Participants in the arrival cover event include:

• Michelle Thaller, moderator, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
• Rich Burns, OSIRIS-REx Project Manager, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
• Heather Enos, Senior Assistant Investigator OSIRIS-REx, University of Arizona, Tucson
• Mark Fisher, OSIRIS-REx satellite engineer, Lockheed Martin Space, Littleton, Colorado.
• Coralie Adam, OSIRIS-REx Flight Navigator, KinetX, Inc. Space Navigation and Flight Dynamics, Simi Valley, California.

The media can submit questions in advance to [email protected]. On December 3, the media and the public can ask questions using the hashtag #askNASA on Twitter or by leaving a comment on the live stream of the event on the Facebook page of the OSIRIS-REx mission.

For more information on OSIRIS-REx, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex

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