Uploaded October 2015 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago

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Engineers at Lockheed Martin move the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft onto a rotation fixture. This fixture supports the full weight of the spacecraft and acts as a hinge, orienting the spacecraft at a 90 degree angle, which allows engineers to access the top of the spacecraft much more easily.

OSIRIS-REx is on the web at https://www.AsteroidMission.org.

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OSIRIS-REx is a NASA New Frontiers mission which will launch in 2016 on a mission to asteroid Bennu and return a sample of the asteroid to Earth in 2023.

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