LAUNCH CENTER

Success

Thu Sep 08 2016

United Launch Alliance

OSIRIS-REx

Launch Successful

Launch Time

(11:05 PM UTC)

Launch Window Start

(11:05 PM UTC)

Launch Window End

(1:05 AM UTC)

Location

No Recovery Specified

Type

No Recovery Specified

Atlas V 411

Atlas V with 4m fairing, 1 SRB, 1 Centaur upper stage engine.

Type: Robotic Exploration
The Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS REx) mission will be the first U.S. mission to carry samples from an asteroid back to Earth and will help scientists investigate how planets formed and how life began, as well as improve our understanding of asteroids that could impact Earth.

Location

Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

Pad

Space Launch Complex 41