20150622 - ASU News - OTES - The OSIRIS-REx Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES) is the first space instrument built entirely on ASU’s Tempe campus, on Monday, June 22, 2015. It will be shipped to Denver later this week, to be mated to the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, then it will be used in a September 2016 on a mission to the primitive asteroid Bennu, to map the asteroid's thermal and spectral mineralogy. Photo by Charlie Leight/ASU News

The first of five imaging instruments for a NASA asteroid-sampling mission arrived at spacecraft prime contractor Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Littleton, Colorado, for integration, the University of Arizona said in a June 26 press release.

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