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Psyche (spacecraft) Psyche (/ ˈsaɪki / SY-kee) is a NASA Discovery Program space mission launched on October 13, 2023 to explore the origin of planetary cores by orbiting and studying the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche beginning in 2029. [ 8 ] NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) manages the project.
On 1 November 2023, Lucy successfully flew by its first target, the main-belt asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh, at a relative speed of 4.5 km/s (2.8 mi/s). [57] On the following day, NASA released images from the flyby and announced the discovery of a small satellite orbiting Dinkinesh. [58]
Nasa has issued an alert for a stadium-sized asteroid set to make a close approach to Earth on Tuesday. The 2024 ON asteroid measures 290 metres (950 feet) across and will come within 1 million km ...
The Near-Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout) was a mission by NASA to develop a controllable low-cost CubeSat solar sail spacecraft capable of encountering near-Earth asteroids (NEA). [ 5 ] [ 6 ] NEA Scout was one of ten CubeSats launched into a heliocentric orbit on Artemis 1 , the maiden flight of the Space Launch System , on 16 November 2022.
Nasa is about to set off to a distant, metal asteroid that could tell us how planets form. On Friday, the spacecraft – currently folded in the cargo bay of a SpaceX rocket – will leave from ...
The asteroid, named by the space agency as "2024 ON," is 621,000 miles from Earth. NASA has issued a high alert regarding a large asteroid that is set to pass by Earth. The NASA Jet Propulsion ...
Europa Clipper →. Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a NASA space mission aimed at testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEOs). [ 4 ][ 5 ] It was designed to assess how much a spacecraft impact deflects an asteroid through its transfer of momentum when hitting the asteroid head-on. [ 6 ]
NASA and ESA have teamed up on other asteroid missions before. In September 2022, NASA’s DART mission intentionally slammed a spacecraft into Dimorphos, a moonlet asteroid that orbits a larger ...