Launched NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on a seven-year mission to rendezvous with near-Earth asteroid Bennu, study it, and return a sample of pristine asteroid material to Earth.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 6 Atlas V 411 flights
- Date and time
- 8 September 2016, 23:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 411
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 2016-055
- Launches in 2016
- 56th of 85
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