OSIRIS-APEX

OSIRIS-APEX — spacecraft, explore its interactive 3D model in Cosmoscope.

Explore OSIRIS-APEX in a 3D Solar System. Follow its published mission trajectory and inspect its distance and spacecraft facts.

Reborn from OSIRIS-REx after dropping its Bennu sample to Earth, the probe now chases Apophis to study the infamous asteroid’s close 2029 flyby of our planet.

Launched
8 Sep 2016
Status
En route to asteroid Apophis — arrives 2029

Explore OSIRIS-APEX in 3D

Explore OSIRIS-APEX along its published mission trajectory in the 3D Solar System. The model uses the available ephemeris interval; historical missions are not active spacecraft and extrapolations beyond an ephemeris interval are approximate.

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