/R E P E A T -- Media Advisory - CSA to Host Virtual Media Briefing on Asteroid Mission/

LONGUEUIL, QC, Aug.16, 2016 /CNW Telbec/ - On August 25, 2016, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will host a virtual technical briefing on Canada's role in OSIRIS-REx, the first NASA-led mission to return an asteroid sample to Earth.

Scheduled to launch on September 8, 2016, OSIRIS-REx will help answer fundamental questions about how our solar system formed, how life began and how we can avoid asteroid impacts with Earth.

The CSA's contribution to the mission is an advanced laser system known as the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA).

The briefing will be followed by a question period for the media.

Date:	August 25, 2016
Time:	11:00 a.m. (EDT)
What:	Virtual technical briefing on the OSIRIS-REx mission
Who:	Heather Enos, Deputy Principal Investigator,  OSIRIS-REx, University of Arizona
	Michael Daly, Lead Instrument Scientist and Canadian Science Team Lead, OSIRIS-Rex, York University
	Cameron Dickinson, OLA Technical Lead, MDA
	Tim Haltigin, OLA Mission Manager, Canadian Space Agency
Where:	To join the briefing, click here
	When registering for the session, please follow this format:
	First name
	Last name – Media affiliation
	Email address

For more information about the OSIRIS-Rex mission, click here.  

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