PI Daily, August 2023
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.
Look, @MissionToPsyche has its own web page at @NASAKennedy ! I believe we are next up for Pad 39A. #PI_Dailyhttps://t.co/2lJ76eX6LQ
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 29, 2023
40 days til the launch period opens!!@MissionToPsyche #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/s06Nq5qrcg
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 26, 2023
Stopped by to visit @NASAEuropa today. The complexity! #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/2ePFh4WPjY
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 23, 2023
Beautiful clouds on my way to Burbank airport yesterday evening. Today and tomorrow: @MissionToPsyche Mission Readiness and Operations Readiness combined reviews. Around 150 people participating. #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/jqf0n3VF8E
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 22, 2023
Listen to my friends on the @MissionToPsyche team talk about what we are doing! #PI_Daily https://t.co/DYUN0aXXv5
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 21, 2023
Nice container to keep the @MissionToPsyche clean on its way to the fueling facility – easier than the classic "bag it" process, wrapping the spacecraft directly. #PI_Daily https://t.co/z2PhFcPBJj
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 19, 2023
Lots of quail this morning while we are about to start the @NASAJPL Educator Workshop for @MissionToPsyche! #PI_Daily #46DaysToLaunch pic.twitter.com/yFP9JeKdV2
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 19, 2023
The @MissionToPsyche spacecraft is about to be fueled with….>>1,000 kg of xenon. Purging the lines commenced yesterday. #PI_Daily New @NASA blog here: https://t.co/umtjaR16iR
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 17, 2023
Now it's @MissionToPsyche Festive Pre-Launch Review Season! Launch Vehicle Readiness Review, Institutional Readiness to Proceed, Institutional Risk Review, Operational Readiness Review, Mission Readiness Review, all in August. #PI_Daily
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 14, 2023
Our spacecraft looking great w solar panels stowed. It was media day for @MissionToPsyche in Florida! #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/67QizFZWzp
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 11, 2023
Thanks for visiting Psyche today! We had a great time showing off the spacecraft to the writers and photographers who came for our media day. #PI_Daily @MissionToPsyche https://t.co/Mtf0XiU0G8
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 11, 2023
We always say (16) Psyche is shaped like a potato…now immortalized in a desktop image for the @MissionToPsyche team in Florida by Jeffery Zhu. #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/tFxXF0K3mB
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 11, 2023
Beautiful dawn in Phoenix this morning. But now my flight to Florida to meet the @MissionToPsyche team for pre-launch media day tomorrow is four hours delayed. I hope we will board in one hour! #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/mNuFeU6EuW
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 10, 2023
How about a REAL #PI_Daily? This was yesterday: Dr. appt, @MissionToPsyche JPL leadership mtg, Project scientist 1:1, NASA HQ weekly tag-up, Student Collabs 1:1, Chief Engineer 1:1, Lead Systems Engineer 1:1. 6 mtgs w 3 misc. think/write projects to fit between. Good, full day.
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 9, 2023
BECAUSE IT'S TWO MONTHS TO LAUNCH!!! Here we come, October 5. It's only been 12 years in the preparation! #PI_Daily @MissionToPsyche #HereWeComeMetalWorld https://t.co/8ULlVeJnb4
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 5, 2023
Beautiful time-lapse video of the final installation of the @MissionToPsyche 25-meter-wide solar arrays on the NASA blog site – click through the link in the tweet here! #PI_Daily https://t.co/LH85a77BNi
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 3, 2023
It's our spacecraft showing one solar array stowed, being worked on in Florida by the great @MissionToPsyche team. Coming into close-out now and then fueling and mating with the rocket! Just over two months to launch. #PI_Daily Photo: NASA/Isaac Watson pic.twitter.com/KCvRsrxeFY
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 1, 2023