OSIRIS-REx

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English

The successful October 2020 sample collection, showing OSIRIS-REx touching down on the Nightingale sample site

Etymology

From OSIRIS +‎ REx.

Proper noun

OSIRIS-REx

  1. (astronomy, NASA) Initialism of Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (a NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission)

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