OSIRIS-REx Sample-Return Capsule

Connections

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Related entities

• Space mission

  OSIRIS-REx

  OSIRIS-REx collected a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu and returned it to Earth in 2023.

• Sample-return capsule

  Hayabusa Sample-Return Capsule

  The small heat-shielded capsule that carried Hayabusa's Itokawa grains back through the atmosphere, separating from the spacecraft (which burned up) and landing by parachute in the Australian outback.

• Sample-return capsule

  Hayabusa2 Sample-Return Capsule

  The reentry capsule that returned Hayabusa2's 5.4 g of Ryugu material, recovered in the Australian desert while the spacecraft continued on to an extended mission.

• Sample-return capsule

  Stardust Sample-Return Capsule

  The capsule that returned Stardust's aerogel trays of comet Wild 2 dust — the first sample-return capsule to bring material back from beyond the Moon.

You might also explore

• Asteroid101955 BennuLinked through OSIRIS-REx
• Mission phaseApproach & CharacterizationLinked through OSIRIS-REx
• Launch vehicleAtlas VLinked through OSIRIS-REx
• Returned sampleBennu Sample (OSIRIS-REx)Linked through OSIRIS-REx
• Launch siteCape Canaveral Space Force StationLinked through OSIRIS-REx
• Tracking networkDeep Space Network (DSN)Linked through OSIRIS-REx

Sources & references

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• NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.

  Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.