October 24, 2018 / Lindy Elkins-Tanton
It’s the festive completion of the mission’s formulation stage What’s a PDR? A Preliminary Design Review. The objective is to evaluate the project’s readiness to proceed with implementation,...
July 26, 2018 / David Oh
What are Psyche’s Systems Engineers doing now? I’m David Oh, and this is my second time writing for the Psyche Blog. As Psyche’s Project Systems Engineer, I lead a team responsible for...
July 11, 2018 / Lindy Elkins-Tanton
Instrument robustness when you don’t know what you’re going to see We’ve got a leading hypothesis about the asteroid (16) Psyche: it is the metal core of a tiny planet that had its rocky...
June 6, 2018 / Bill Hart
There is one question that I get routinely, from both those inside and outside the engineering industry: “What exactly does a systems engineer do?”
April 19, 2018 / Lindy Elkins-Tanton
In honor of Psyche mission’s PMSR, our first big review, I post here all the year’s tweets on NASA acronyms.
April 9, 2018 / Lindy Elkins-Tanton
How do we estimate the resources we need to cover future unknowns? In every flight project — indeed in every complex project — the costs tend to go up over time from the first estimates...
March 5, 2018 / Dan Goebel
People have asked me what a Chief Engineer does. Here’s what I think they do (I hope the Psyche management team agrees), and also how I got to be one.
February 13, 2018 / Kari Sanford
My first exploration of an “all-metal” world was in seventh grade. Little did I know, I’d be contributing in two different ways to a “heavy metal” NASA mission.
January 19, 2018 / Dan Goebel
We reduce the amount of propellant we need to take with us on the Psyche mission by using Solar Electric Propulsion. Here’s a brief description about how electric thrusters work.
January 12, 2018 / Dan Goebel
I’ve had a lot of people come up to me and say: “I’ve heard about the Psyche mission, but what does SEP mean?”
January 3, 2018 / Lindy Elkins-Tanton
We were selected for flight January 4, 2017…what have we been doing this year?
October 23, 2017 / Lindy Elkins-Tanton
One August morning this year I got an email saying, “Did you hear President Crow challenged the football team to perform as well as Psyche team?” What?
