Osiris Rex Navigation

OSIRIS-REx is the first NASA mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth. Navigation and flight dynamics for the mission to acquire and return a sample of asteroid 101955 Bennu establish many firsts for space exploration. These include relatively small orbital maneuvers that are precise to 1 mms, close-up operations in a captured orbit about an asteroid that is small in size and

The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer OSIRIS-REx spacecraft launched on September 8, 2016 to embark on an asteroid sample return mission. It is expected to rendezvous with the asteroid, Bennu, navigate to the surface, collect a sample July'20, and return the sample to Earth September'23. The original mission design called for using one

Stereophotoclinometry for OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Navigation. 15 September 2023 The Planetary Science Journal, Vol. 4, No. 9. Post-flight Evaluation of Lidar-based Digital Terrain Models for OSIRIS-REx Navigation at Bennu. 27 July 2023 The Planetary Science Journal, Vol. 4, No. 7.

The first six months of asteroid proximity operations for the OSIRIS-REx mission is known as the Navigation Campaign - a portion of the mission designed to optimize initial characterization of asteroid Bennu and its dynamical environment in support of initial orbit insertion and transition from star-based to landmark-based optical navigation

Lessons Learned from OSIRIS-REx Autonomous Navigation Using Natural Feature Tracking David A. Lorenz SGT Incorporated 7701 Greenbelt Road Greenbelt, MD 20770 301-286-6457 email160protected Ryan Olds Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, P.O. Box 179 Denver, CO 80201 303-971-9694 email160protected Alexander May

OSIRIS-REx departed the vicinity of Bennu on May 10, 2021, initiating a roughly 2.5-year and 2-billion km journey back to Earth see Figure1. On September 24, 2023, OSIRIS-REx released for OSIRIS-REx, including navigation and EDL. We will summarize the key and driving require-ments for the design and ConOps, as well as significant trade

The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer OSIRIS-REx mission conducted nearly two years of proximity operations around asteroid 101955 Bennu. Optical navigation OpNavwas critical to the success of OSIRIS-REx's mission to collect a sample from asteroid Bennu.

Lauretta et al. 2017 describe each of the OSIRIS-REx mission phases in detail. This paper provides an overview of the functions performed by the OSIRIS-REx navigation team and highlights unique aspects of the mission design and navigation performance for each mission phase. 2 Navigation and Flight Dynamics Activities for OSIRIS-REx

first part of this goal was accomplished in October 2020 when OSIRIS-REx successfully captured a sample of regolith from asteroid Bennu. To accomplish this, the spacecraft flight software utilized several autonomous Guidance Navigation and Control GNampC algorithms including an optical navigation system referred to as Natural Feature Tracking

The NASA Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer OSIRIS-REx spacecraft began close proximity operations at the small 500-mdiameter B-type asteroid 101955 Bennu in December 2018 and concluded in May 2021.Hundreds of grams of pristine surface regolith were collected on October 20, 2020, when the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully executed