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Cost of OSIRIS-REx

Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) cost $1.02 billion (not adjusted for inflation) over its lifetime and successfully gathered and returned samples from the asteroid Bennu to Earth.

With the spacecraft still in good condition, OSIRIS-REx was reconfigured as OSIRIS-APEX and targeted to explore the asteroid Apophis in 2029.

Chart of OSIRIS-REx mission costs per fiscal year.

OSIRIS-REx costs per fiscal year. Future fiscal year data represents official projections. The spacecraft launched in September 2016 and entered its operational phase by the start of the 2017 fiscal year. In September of 2023, OSIRIS-REx returned to Earth to deliver its sample cache from asteroid Bennu.

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OSIRIS-REx over asteroid Bennu

OSIRIS-REx, NASA's sample return mission to asteroid Bennu

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023.

Disturbing an asteroid

OSIRIS-APEX, NASA's asteroid Apophis chaser

The NASA probe is on a mission to the potentially dangerous asteroid Apophis