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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]
The Psyche probe, folded inside the cargo bay of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, blasted off under partly cloudy skies from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral on a planned journey 2.2 ...
The Psyche spacecraft lifted off atop one of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rockets at 10:19 a.m. ET from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The probe will now spend years traveling into deep space en ...
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 ]
Distant, ancient chunk of metal is thought to be a protoplanet
English: 16 Psyche space elevator. This asteroid as a mean diameter of 223 km and has a Equatorial rotation velocity of 53.14 km/h or .0147 km/s, making a rotation in just over 4 hours. This asteroid as a mean diameter of 223 km and has a Equatorial rotation velocity of 53.14 km/h or .0147 km/s, making a rotation in just over 4 hours.
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.
Lucy is a NASA space probe on a twelve-year journey to eight different asteroids. It is slated to visit two main belt asteroids as well as six Jupiter trojans – asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit around the Sun, orbiting either ahead of or behind the planet. [4] [5] All target encounters will be flyby encounters. [6]