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OSIRIS-APEX

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Active — OSIRIS-REx, renamed after delivering Bennu's sample, now bound for Apophis: Earth flyby 2025-09-23, rendezvous June 2029, two months after Apophis passes the Earth (science.nasa.gov, updated 2026-09-23).

Measured

Agency
NASA
Became OSIRIS-APEX
2023-09-24
From the Earth today
0.574 AU (85.8 million km)
Across its solar arrays
6.2 m

How far, from the Earth

85.8 million km. To cross it:

  • Light4 minutes 46 seconds
  • Voyager 1's speed58.9 days
  • Driving at 100 km/h97.9 years

Voyager 1 at the speed it moved outward over the year to 2026-10-25 (JPL Horizons). Driving: nonstop, never refuelling.

Facts

  • JPL Horizons trajectory round the Sun: worst miss 6,800 km on the dates it was checked against (median 62 km); between those dates as much as about 20,500 km. Dates after the data was fetched are Horizons' predictions, which it revises as a mission flies.

Where this comes from

  • NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
  • Spacecraft trajectories: JPL Horizons, NASA/JPL-Caltech; each mission's agency credited on its card.
  • 3D model: OSIRIS-REx model: NASA 3D Resources (the same craft now flies as OSIRIS-APEX, without its sample-return capsule)

Every catalogue Ouranos draws is credited on the credits page.