PI Daily, March 2022
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.
Hey members of the press!
Come see our gorgeous @MissionToPsyche spacecraft in the clean highbay on our Psyche JPL media day, Monday April 11. See you there!#PI_Dailyhttps://t.co/2T0xeWXSxR— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) March 22, 2022
Our beautiful @MissionToPsyche spacecraft has completed vibe and shock tests, and is moving on to acoustics. #PI_Daily
Five weeks to ship JPL –> KSC
133 to launch period open! pic.twitter.com/8w9zTUKPni— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) March 21, 2022
Starting a big speaker training event for @MissionToPsyche team with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook @AldaCenter! We have 135 people online. We'll be more ready to tell the story and engage the world. #PI_Daily
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) March 17, 2022
Happy Psyche asteroid discovery day!
On this day 170 years ago astronomer Annibale de Gasparis discovered the point of light and named it (16) Psyche.
And in four years, @MissionToPsyche will enter into orbit around that asteroid! #PI_Dailyhttps://t.co/F3OYKOXUur
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) March 17, 2022
139 days til launch!
@MissionToPsyche #PI_Daily
This @NASAJPL squirrel seems awfully calm. pic.twitter.com/R4wlEpLDGT— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) March 15, 2022
Wow I just gowned up & watched @MissionToPsyche spacecraft have 1/2-power y-axis vibration testing.The whole room goes silent, a deep thrumming starts, and then the blanketing and the booms on the top of the s/c are moving and shaking! Good so far…photos later. #PI_Daily
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) March 14, 2022
Back to Pasadena! Here this week to witness a bit of the @MissionToPsyche vibe and shock tests. So far, so good! #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/Bw7LMYc9N2
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) March 14, 2022
It's @MissionToPsyche all-team meeting this morning, updating everyone on progress.
145 days to opening of the launch period! #PI_Daily
We're soon moving into vibe testing. This is a photo of the SMAP spacecraft on the vibe table, from this paper: https://t.co/8bY6VPCps2 pic.twitter.com/0JZgc7k4q1
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) March 9, 2022
How do we prepare for faults and glitches on the spacecraft after launch? #PI_Daily
A @MissionToPsyche blog.
("Nominal" means exactly as intended, normal)Designing the Psyche Spacecraft for the Off-Nominal by Danielle M Marsh https://t.co/DAKt4cXSgi
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) March 8, 2022
These solar panels from @SolaeroTech on the @Maxar chassis at @NASAJPL are SOOO beautiful! Go, @MissionToPsyche! #PI_Daily https://t.co/BfvjWg5OIf
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) March 7, 2022
Two acronyms for @MissionToPsyche that have silly pronunciations:
"My Wig" = MIWG, mission integration working group
"Smizzer" = SMSR, safety and mission success review#PI_Daily— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) March 3, 2022
OK, a REALLY real #PI_Daily post.
2 yrs of COVID, w losses & challenges. And we've kept building this @MissionToPsyche s/c.
Now we need to sprint to finish, just as we are overwhelmed w exhaustion.
The team has spirit, is doing it, tho anger is close by, and tears. (1/2)
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) March 2, 2022
Burst of joy found behind a random building @NASAJPL on a lunchtime walk. @MissionToPsyche is prepping for vibe and shock tests. Almost all the hardware is complete. So close, and yet so far…#PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/OKzwgxNUBi
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) March 1, 2022
Back in Pasadena. Pretty mountains on the way in this afternoon. Tomorrow, lotsa @MissionToPsyche work at JPL. #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/2TPw4n1LCI
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) March 1, 2022