OSIRIS-APEX Mission: mission and targets

Project start

September 25, 2023

Declared end

not declared

The start the archive declares is the start of the project, not the launch, and an end it does not declare does not mean the mission is still running.

None of the targets this mission declares is in Galaxy’s catalogue.

Spacecraft of this mission that Galaxy follows:

• OSIRIS-REx

A declared target is what the archive files the mission’s data under, not a record of observation.

The OSIRIS-APEX mission is an extended mission of the OSIRiS-REx mission. APEX uses the capable OSIRIS-REX spacecraft with its complete instrument suite. APEX will distantly observe Apophis during the 2029 Earth encounter and capture its evolution in real time, revealing the consequences of an asteroid undergoing tidal disturbance by a major planet. Beginning in 2029 June, the spacecraft’s instrument suite will begin providing high resolution data of this “stony” asteroid — advancing knowledge of these objects and their connection to meteorites.

Quoted in English, as the archive publishes it, read on October 4, 2026.

• 99942 Apophis (asteroid)

Identifier in the archive, which is its citation: urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.apex

NASA Planetary Data System, PDS Registry, investigation context products. Dates and targets read on September 29, 2026; how to cite the archive: https://pds.nasa.gov/datastandards/citing/

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