PI Daily, September 2021
By Lindy Elkins-Tanton Starting January 1, 2020…
a new series of daily mission activity Tweets from Psyche Principal Investigator (PI) Lindy Elkins-Tanton.
#PI_Daily
The goal? To share an inside look at the chores, challenges, tasks, assignments, duties, and more taken on by a NASA mission PI!
Follow along on @MissionToPsyche or below.
Celebrating the inspiration of space exploration today.
As Christopher Toth said to @RobGMacfarlane,"If you're not exploring, you're just…waiting."
You can see and download the @MissionToPsyche Inspired art on https://t.co/0MXQg5xAXF. #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/WRv01kA0wu
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) September 29, 2021
#PI_Daily Today is @MissionToPsyche Super Tuesday (#meetings) PLUS System-Level Test-Readiness Review for Electro-Magnetic Interference and Compatibility (TRR Sys-Level EMI/EMC). We'll discuss all the test plans, w a review board. Let's make sure she works when it's all running! pic.twitter.com/hD0q4ywuSm
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) September 28, 2021
Every month we get 2- and 3-hr instrument reviews, in addition to an all-day MMR for the project. Today: imager. Some testing has been complicated by local power outages. Every kind of challenge you can imagine, a project this size has to contend with! #PI_Daily @MissionToPsyche pic.twitter.com/fui3J61jiN
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) September 27, 2021
Decades of expertise in Hall thrusters with @marstimrdad. We've been on the @MissionToPsyche team together for 8 years now! #PI_Daily https://t.co/KY2wBaeKrJ
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) September 23, 2021
It's Monthly Management Review day for @MissionToPsyche, and with a fair amount of good news! Amazing how it lifts my mood. We are in crunch time, only an ultramarathon of crunch time, eleven months of it 'til launch. #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/b9Cm5RrQtD
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) September 22, 2021
The great Hal helps explain Lagrange points! #PI_Daily https://t.co/q4fsdJCzzT
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) September 22, 2021
Love our @MissionToPsyche Hall-effect SPT thrusters! First time they'll be used outside Earth-Moon orbit. #PI_Daily https://t.co/12fK2CgGSK
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) September 20, 2021
Heading back to Arizona tomorrow. See you soon, gorgeous @MissionToPsyche spacecraft! #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/DeRrT623fu
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) September 17, 2021
It's 320 days to the opening of @MissionToPsyche's launch period!
Today reviewed thermal-vacuum test plan. S/c will go thru hot & cold temps and mimic mission phases, to validate the thermal models (will science instruments stay w/in T parameters?) and check systems.#PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/X8C4uQ3j9G
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) September 15, 2021
In between brainstorming and problem-solving with @MissionToPsyche team at @NASAJPL, we did some filming with the beautiful spacecraft and @TrueStoryFilms in the high bay.#PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/2LeMplJyNl
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) September 14, 2021
Two deer wander toward the resting buck on the lawns by @NASAJPL’s front gate. A highlight of today was a meeting with some @SpaceX launch team members. Long good #PI_Daily day for @MissionToPsyche. pic.twitter.com/KjU56vKNko
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) September 14, 2021
#PI_Daily the robotic team spreading out through the solar system to learn more about how our rocky planets were built. #TeamAsteroidMission https://t.co/U7ZiUG3r83
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) September 10, 2021
Would Psyche look like this if the metal and rock were in large provinces?
Art by @peter_rubin, sound on.#PI_Daily https://t.co/Rprxxhbsf7
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) September 8, 2021
#PI_Daily @MissionToPsyche update: Integration of the spacecraft is going well. Feels GOOD!
Today in addition, Hardware Review and Certification Record for the Flight Model Power Distribution Assembly (FM PDA HRCR). (not pictured) pic.twitter.com/geEIADSc5V
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) September 2, 2021
Launch vehicle Critical Design Review for @MissionToPsyche and @SpaceX all day today and most of yesterday. Pad 39A, here we come! #encapsulation #groundTrack #MechanicalInterface #AcousticsShockVibe #SeparationAnalysis#PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/F2xlE7Ff2H
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) September 1, 2021