SPARKS, Nev., September 08, 2016 – Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is proud to be supporting NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in its objective to analyze and return the first-ever asteroid sample for the United States. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft was built by Lockheed Martin and was launched successfully from Cape Canaveral today. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will travel to the asteroid Bennu to analyze and gather a sample, and then return to Earth via a detachable capsule. The spacecraft includes Solar Array Drive Assemblies (SADAs) built by SNC, which support the OSIRIS-REx mission to investigate formation of the solar system and the origin of organics that may have led to life on Earth and potentially elsewhere.
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Credit NASA/Glenn Benson
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SNC is a trusted global leader in aerospace and national security. Our innovative solutions enable connected protection through command, control and communications systems, as well as ISR, cyber, electromagnetic spectrum management, and other high capabilities for national security systems across all domains – sea, land, air, space and cyber. As a longstanding leader in defense technology, SNC is at the optimum intersection of commercial, defense and non-traditional contractors. We are one of the only privately owned mid-tier A&D contractors and we pride ourselves on our ability to invest early and often to ensure mission success on or ahead of schedule. It's part of our mission to always stay one step ahead; working on solutions today to solve the problems of tomorrow. Founded in 1963, SNC is owned by Chairwoman Eren Ozmen and CEO Fatih Ozmen.