Category: Team

January 21, 2021 / Kaxandra Nessi

ASU-led NASA Psyche mission capstone team wins smartphone app competition

An Arizona State University capstone team has designed and launched a new interactive NASA Psyche mission smartphone app to engage with the public.

April 3, 2018 / Karin Valentine

NASA Psyche Mission: Journey to a Metal World

Psyche is both the name of an asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter — and the name of a NASA space mission to visit that asteroid, led by Arizona State University. Join the Psyche...
This is a photograph of Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton, the Principal Investigator of the Psyche mission.

July 20, 2017 / Suzanne Wilson

ASU-led Psyche mission boosts case for a deeper dive into space

ASU Foundation Professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton goes to bat for space exploration at congressional subcommittee hearing.

This artist's conception shows the Psyche spacecraft against a starry background orbiting above the heavily cratered surface of the Psyche asteroid.

May 24, 2017 / NASA

NASA Moves Up Launch of Psyche Mission to a Metal Asteroid

Psyche, NASA’s Discovery Mission to a unique metal asteroid, has been moved up one year with launch in the summer of 2022, and with a planned arrival at the main belt asteroid in 2026 —...
This image shows a cream-colored, 3D-printed artist's conception of the Psyche asteroid that is about 8 inches in diameter.

March 15, 2017 / Skip Derra

ASU techies create 3-D model of mysterious, metal asteroid Psyche

Exploring new worlds requires vision and some well-educated guesses; visual cues are nice, too. The asteroid Psyche is a new world that will be explored by a group of space scientists led by...
This image shows the high bay at Maxar where spacecraft are assembled.

January 6, 2017 / SSL

SSL TO PROVIDE SPACECRAFT FOR NASA ASTEROID EXPLORATION MISSION

SSL, a leading provider of innovative satellites and spacecraft systems, today announced that it will provide a spacecraft platform for a NASA Discovery Mission to explore the metallic asteroid...
This artist's conception shows a close-up of the heavily cratered surface of the Psyche asteroid.

January 4, 2017 / Karin Valentine

ASU to lead deep-space NASA mission for 1st time

Arizona State University’s Psyche Mission, a journey to a metal asteroid, has been selected for flight, marking the first time the school will lead a deep-space NASA mission and the first...
This artist's conception shows a close-up of the heavily cratered surface of the Psyche asteroid.

January 4, 2017 / NASA

NASA Selects Two Missions to Explore the Early Solar System

NASA has selected two missions that have the potential to open new windows on one of the earliest eras in the history of our solar system – a time less than 10 million years after the birth...
A picture of the Psyche team outside Maxar (formerly SSL).

December 20, 2016 / Karin Valentine

Journey to a metal world

After a grueling five-year pitch, a team of scientists — led by Lindy Elkins-Tanton, director of Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration — recently completed...