PI Daily, May 2024

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.

It's mission day 230 for @MissionToPsyche, and the spacecraft is 2.3 AU from the Earth. It takes our radio comms 19 minutes to reach the craft. All systems nominal, cruising along. #PI_Daily

— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) May 29, 2024

Psyche update: We are officially in cruise, and it's going well. #PI_Daily https://t.co/yhBNbPr9W9

— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) May 23, 2024

Today, with the spacecraft 842 times farther from the Earth than the Moon, we held a 3-hour culture-setting exercise for the @MissionToPsyche team, with ~140 people. I've done this with other teams, too, in case you are interested! #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/YNYZgBqajK

— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) May 20, 2024

Here's a graphic of the @MissionToPsyche – Sun – Earth isosceles triangle today, mission day 211. The spacecraft's speed with respect to the Sun is 19.4 km/sec. #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/Gcf89wTOt6

— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) May 10, 2024