Since launching in October, NASA has begun turning on Psyche‘s scientific instruments and perform early test to ensure everything is working correctly. This lead to the spacecraft capturing its first photo in space on Monday.
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After dodging some harsh weather, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft lifted off from the historic LC-39A launch pad at 10:19 A.M. ET on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket. After being delayed a year, the spacecraft is finally on its way to an asteroid, of the same name, to do some good old science.
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We spoke with NASA Marshall’s Joel Robinson and JPL’s Maria de Soria-Santacruz Pich to learn more about NASA’s Psyche spacecraft which is set to launch in the coming days on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Watch our video below!
Coming up in a few months, a mission to a distant asteroid is slated to launch on top of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. With the probe sitting safely in its clean room in Florida awaiting launch, here is everything you need to know about NASA’s Psyche mission.
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NASA planned to launch a mission this year to explore a unique asteroid called Psyche. Unfortunately the team behind the Psyche mission ran out of time to properly test the spacecraft in time to make this year’s launch window.
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NASA is progressing toward an upcoming mission dedicated to exploring a unique asteroid called Psyche. The metal-rock asteroid orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter and could give us answers on how Earth was formed. The spacecraft that will be used for NASA’s Psyche mission is graduating from a design phase to manufacturing ahead of a planned launch in 2022.
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