Announcements

• LAS July 16, 2026 Meeting
  Beyond Bennu: OSIRIS-APEX and the Exploration of Near-Earth Asteroid Apophis The OSIRIS-APophis EXplorer mission is the second life of one of NASA’s great success stories in planetary science. The spacecraft, launched in 2016 as OSIRIS-REx, spent two years orbiting the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu before collecting a sample and delivering it safely to Earth in September 2023. After dropping off its cargo, the spacecraft and its instruments remained healthy, so NASA extended the mission and gave it a new target and a new name: asteroid Apophis, named after the ancient Egyptian god of chaos, and OSIRIS-APEX. On April 13, 2029, the… Read more: LAS July 16, 2026 Meeting