PI Daily, February 2024
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.
Psyche's happily nominal, at the beginning of its offical cruise phase. Zooming away at 18.6 km/s relative to the Earth at , it's nearing Mars' orbit! @MissionToPsyche #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/XO1eI9eBff
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) February 1, 2024
The @MissionToPsyche spacecraft is:
– System mode = SYS_NOMINAL
– Spacecraft is power positive and thermally stable
– 279 times farther from Earth than the Moon
– moving at 700x cheetah top speed (21.4 km/sec)#PI_Daily— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) February 13, 2024
Good morning to @MissionToPsyche day 131 in space! We are SYS_NOMINAL, and 6.7 light minutes away, also known as 313 times farther than the Moon. #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/7l6yq6DkdG
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) February 20, 2024