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NASA OKs Sept. 8 Launch for Lockheed-Built OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft After Launch Readiness Review

NASA OKs Sept. 8 Launch for Lockheed-Built OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft After Launch Readiness Review - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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OSIRIS-REx spacecraftNASA has given the Lockheed Martin-built Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft the go-ahead to launch on Sept. 8 after the space vehicle passed a launch readiness evaluation Tuesday, Space News reported.

Jeff Foust writes the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida onboard the United Launch Alliance-developed Atlas 5 rocket to collect samples of the Bennu asteroid for further research.

Officials with NASA and ULA said at a Tuesday briefing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida that the explosion of the SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket prior to the rocket’s static fire test on Thursday would not have an effect on the OSIRIS-REx mission, Foust reports.

NASA expects OSIRIS-REx to reach Bennu in August 2018 and then collect rock samples by mid-2020 through the use of the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism sampling tool, according to the report.

The report added OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to reach Earth by September 2023 and land in Utah with the collected rock samples.

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Written by Jane Edwards

is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.

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