Maxar Delivers Spacecraft Bus for NASA’s Psyche Mission
By Maxar Technologies
Maxar Technologies, a trusted partner and innovator in Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure, today announced the delivery of the Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Chassis to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for the NASA Discovery Mission, Psyche. The SEP Chassis is based on Maxar’s 1300-class platform, the world’s most trusted spacecraft, which provided NASA the opportunity to budget, design and build the historic Psyche mission on flight-proven, commercially developed hardware.
The Solar Electric Propulsion chassis will power Psyche on 1 billion-mile journey to a metal-rich asteroid