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The Psyche mission will arrive at the metallic asteroid — also known as an M-type asteroid, and it’s the largest in the solar system — in 2029 and study it in orbit for about two years.
The VERITAS Venus mission was delayed to free up staff to focus on Psyche. [16] On April 18, 2023, JPL's mission page for Psyche was updated to reflect a new launch date of October 5, 2023. [17] On September 28, 2023, the launch was again delayed to no earlier than October 12, 2023, due to an unspecified issue with the spacecraft. [18]
A NASA probe launched into space Friday on a 2.2-billion-mile journey to a huge, metal-rich space rock in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. NASA's Psyche spacecraft launches on ...
Space Place Prime highlights material on the Space Place website, as well as popular NASA images and videos. [8] The Space Place program has produced games for the iPad and iPhone as well. Currently released Space Place games are Comet Quest, [9] about the Rosetta mission, and Satellite Insight, [10] about NOAA's GOES-R series weather satellites.
Distant, ancient chunk of metal is thought to be a protoplanet
16 Psyche (/ ˈ s aɪ k iː / SY-kee) is a large M-type asteroid, which was discovered by the Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis, on 17 March 1852 and named after the Greek goddess Psyche. [ 10 ]
Later this year, NASA is sending a spaceship to an asteroid called "16 Psyche." The sheer volume of metal on the asteroid is staggering—and incredibly valuable.
The new space center included the second largest planetarium in the state of Utah, which started running shows in November 2020. In 2018, the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center (as it was then called) removed the word "Education" from its name and also updated its logo to a new stylized version of the original. [citation needed]