The spacecraft, which has a mass of just over 6,000 pounds at launch, made it through Earth’s atmosphere and separated from the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket’s second stage around an hour after launch, a process that is shown in the video below: Psyche Mission: Spacecraft Separation Around...
has been set to transmit. Perhaps most vitally, the flight software has been checked and rechecked to ensure there's not a repeat of 2022's last-minute delay. In about two weeks, the team will start mounting the spacecraft inside the payload fairing that will protect it during launch. ...
Psyche, the NASA mission to explore a metal-rock asteroid of the same name, recently passed a crucial milestone that brings it closer to its August 2022 launch date. Now the mission is moving from planning and designing to high-gear manufacturing of the spacecraft hardware that will fly to ...
Psyche, the NASA mission to explore a metal-rock asteroid of the same name, recently passed a crucial milestone that brings it closer to its August 2022 launch date. Now the mission is moving from planning and designing to high-gear manufacturing of the spacecraft hardware that will fly to ...
When spacecraft like Psyche are launched, they’re ensconced in the nose of the rocket that carries them. All eyes are on the rocket and its successful launch. But once they separate from the rocket, they’re on their own and mission engineers monitor them carefully, powering up systems and...
The Psyche spacecraft just fired a laser on its way to a metal asteroiod, in a test that could help speed up science transmissions across the solar system.
Target asteroid The spacecraft Psyche mission expert Q&A Bibliography Psyche is a NASA mission that will explore a 140-mile-wide (225 kilometers) metallic asteroid called 16 Psyche. The mission launched on Oct. 13, 2023, at 10:19 a.m. EDT (1419 GMT) atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket...
This Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) managed mission will explore Psyche for 21months after an earliest launch date of August 2022 and a 3.5year cruise. In this paper, the End-to-End Information System's (EEIS) concept, architecture, and the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (...
Of course, none of this will be proven until NASA sendsits Psyche probeto the space rock. The U.S. space agency aims to launch its spacecraft in August this year. After a four-year journey, it is expected to reach 16 Psyche around January of 2026. As Nichols-Fleming explains, Psyche...
By next spring, the fully assembled Psyche will be shipped to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in advance of its August 2022 target launch date. The spacecraft will fly by Mars for a gravity assist in May 2023 and in early 2026, will go into orbit around the asteroid,...