After Bennu’s success, NASA launches OSIRIS-APEx on a historic mission to study asteroid Apophis – Science News
NASA has launched a spacecraft named OSIRIS-APEx, formerly known as OSIRIS-REx, to study the asteroid Apophis. This comes after OSIRIS-REx successfully completed a seven-year journey to bring a sample of the Bennu asteroid back to Earth. “The former OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sets off on a seven-year, 4 billion-mile journey to study asteroid Apophis and take advantage …