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OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa 2 - Artwork

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Ron Miller/Novapix

Reference

e-son36-00003

Date

2017-08-11

OSIRIS-REx will travel to a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu and bring a small sample back to Earth for study. It was launched on Sept. 8, 2016. As planned, the spacecraft will reach its asteroid target in 2018 and return a sample to Earth in 2023.
Hayabusa2 is an asteroid sample return mission operated by the Japanese space agency, JAXA. Launched in December 2014 Hayabusa 2 is expected to arrive at the asteroid 162173 Ryugu in July 2018, survey the asteroid for a year and a half, depart in December 2019, and return to Earth in December 2020.