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Psyche (/ ˈ s aɪ k i / 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 has launched a spacecraft to study the metal asteroid Psyche to determine whether it’s the exposed core of an early planetary building block. Psyche mission launches as NASA’s first trip ...
The Deep Space Optical Communications team worked during the early morning hours of November 14 in the Psyche mission support area at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, to ...
An independent review board gave NASA’s Psyche mission the green light and its seal of approval following a scathing review in 2022. The Psyche mission, which will head to the asteroid belt, was ...
Header of the Discovery Program website (January 2016) [1] Depictions of the Lucy and Psyche missions Asteroid Eros regolith, as viewed by Discovery's NEAR Shoemaker mission The Discovery Program is a series of Solar System exploration missions funded by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through its Planetary Missions Program Office.
However, problems with Psyche's flight software led NASA to revert to the original launch timeline. [47] On 28 February 2020, NASA awarded SpaceX a US$117 million contract to launch the Psyche spacecraft, and two smallsat secondary missions, on a Falcon Heavy rocket. [48]
Distant, ancient chunk of metal is thought to be a protoplanet
A Deep Space Optical Communication demonstration is included with NASA's Psyche mission, launched on October 13, 2023. The Psyche spacecraft will explore the metal asteroid 16 Psyche, reaching the asteroid belt in 2029. [10] [11] [12] DSOC first light was achieved on November 14, 2023. The experiment successfully transmitted a 15-second ultra ...