The device that will map the surface of an asteroid is being installed on the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.
The University of Arizona leads the OSIRIS-REx mission. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch in September and get a sample from an asteroid.
The Canadian Space Agency supplied the laser instrument that will help scientists select the best place to get a small sample of the asteroid. The spacecraft is being assembled in Denver by Lockheed Martin.
One more instrument, a spectrometer being built by students and faculty at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be added early in 2016.