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3D-Printed Psyche Asteroid Model
Painted 3-D model of the Psyche Asteroid
12-02-2017
Artist’s Conception of Psyche spacecraft at Psyche asteroid
...This artist’s conception shows the Psyche spacecraft near the surface of the Psyche asteroid....
01-10-2018
Psyche Spacecraft
...The Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Chassis of NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is mounted onto a rotation fixture in High Bay 1 of the Spacecraft Assembly...
03-29-2021
Psyche Spacecraft (Artist’s Concept)
...This artist’s concept, updated as of June 2020, depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. Set to launch in August 2022, the Psyche mission will...
07-14-2020
Meet the NASA Psyche team who will map Psyche’s elemental composition
...Meet the team designing and building the Psyche mission’s gamma ray and neutron spectrometer. This instrument on the spacecraft will detect, measure,...
07-07-2020
Psyche’s Spectrometer
...Sam Fix work on the Gamma Ray/Neutron Spectrometer (GRNS) instrument that will launch aboard the Psyche spacecraft in 2022 to detect, measure and map...
07-14-2020
Small-Scale Mix of Rock and Metal: Psyche Asteroid Illustration
...This illustration depicts the 140-mile-wide (226-kilometer-wide) asteroid Psyche, which lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Psyche...
03-29-2021
Large Regions of Rock and Metal: Psyche Asteroid Illustration
...This illustration depicts the 140-mile-wide (226-kilometer-wide) asteroid Psyche, which lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Psyche...
03-29-2021
NASA’s Psyche: Picking up Launch Prep for 2023
...NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is shown in a clean room on Dec. 8, 2022, at Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space...
01-24-2023
Psyche Spacecraft
...A major component of NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has been delivered to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, where the phase known...
03-29-2021
Psyche Spacecraft
...A major component of NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has been delivered to the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, where the phase...
03-29-2021
NASA Psyche Online Courses
...While the spacecraft and instruments of the NASA Psyche Mission are being designed and built in preparation for launch to the Psyche asteroid in 2022,...
01-25-2020
Psyche Spacecraft Paper Model Assembly
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12-08-2017
Psyche LEGO Model Assembly
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02-24-2018
Psyche in Progress
...The main body of NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, called the Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Chassis, is in a clean room at Maxar Technologies in Palo...
07-14-2020
Psyche Spacecraft Illustration
...This illustration, updated as of March 2021, depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. Set to launch in August 2022, the Psyche mission will explore a...
03-29-2021
3D-Printed Psyche Asteroid Models
Large painted 3-D model of the Psyche Asteroid
12-02-2017
Orbiting Asteroid Psyche (Illustration)
...This illustration shows how NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will explore the asteroid Psyche, beginning with Orbit A when it arrives at the asteroid...
12-20-2021
Preparing Psyche’s Thruster Installation
...Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California prepare to integrate four Hall thrusters (beneath red protective covers)...
09-20-2021
NASA Psyche Mission: Charting a Metallic World
...In this artist’s rendition, we explore a metallic world named Psyche, an asteroid that offers a unique window into the building blocks of planet formation....
09-08-2021
Psyche Mission: Simone Marchi Science Team Co-Investigator
...One of the first steps in understanding the geology of Psyche is for the Psyche science team to find out more about collisions and crater formation...
09-05-2019
Psyche’s Thruster Integration Underway
...Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California work to integrate Hall thrusters into the agency’s Psyche spacecraft...
09-20-2021
Spacecraft in Integration & Test
...NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is captured here on August 18, 2021, in a clean room at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California...
08-24-2021
Psyche Spacecraft: Main Body
...Psyche’s SEP chassis is currently in main body integration in Maxar’s Palo Alto, Calif. manufacturing facility. The equipment panels have been mated...
12-01-2020
Psyche Thrusters: Integration Complete
...NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is photographed in July 2021 during the mission’s assembly, test, and launch operations phase at the agency’s...
09-20-2021
Psyche Gamma-Ray Spectrometer
The Psyche gamma-ray spectrometer uses a high-purified germanium crystal to capture gamma rays emitted by asteroid Psyche. These gamma rays can reveal...
09-02-2021
Psyche Neutron Spectrometer
The Psyche neutron spectrometer uses three cylinders filled with a gas of helium-3, an isotope of helium that will rapidly grab free neutrons emitted by...
09-02-2021
Psyche Spacecraft
...After Maxar Technologies successfully installed Psyche’s High Gain Antenna, their team moved the Psyche Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Chassis to...
03-12-2021
Psyche Spacecraft
...After Maxar Technologies successfully installed Psyche’s High Gain Antenna, their team moved the Psyche Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Chassis to...
03-12-2021
Psyche Spacecraft
...After Maxar Technologies successfully installed Psyche’s High Gain Antenna, their team moved the Psyche Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Chassis to...
03-12-2021
Psyche Spacecraft
...After Maxar Technologies successfully installed Psyche’s High Gain Antenna, their team moved the Psyche Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Chassis to...
03-12-2021
Psyche Spacecraft
...After Maxar Technologies successfully installed Psyche’s High Gain Antenna, their team moved the Psyche Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Chassis to...
03-12-2021
Psyche Spacecraft
...After Maxar Technologies successfully installed Psyche’s High Gain Antenna, their team moved the Psyche Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Chassis to...
03-12-2021
Thumbs-up for Ion Propulsion
...Psyche engineers adapted to COVID-19 social distancing and masking requirements while testing the Hall thrusters that will propel NASA’s Psyche...
07-14-2020
Psyche Mission: Co-Investigator Dr. Tim McCoy
...Join NASA Psyche Mission Co-Investigator Dr. Tim McCoy as he takes us on a journey from his first geology class to his current role as Curator-in-Charge...
01-26-2020
Psyche Inspired Overview Video
...An overview of the Psyche Inspired program. Directed by: Brooke Owen Introduction stop motion video by: Nikka Bacalzo Music by: Isaac Wisdom Edited...
04-12-2018
Psyche: Join the Journey to a Metal World
...Join the Psyche team to explore why this mission was selected for NASA’s Discovery Program, how we’ll get to the asteroid, what we hope to learn...
04-03-2018
NASA Psyche Mission: Undergraduate Capstone Projects
...Wonder what it’s like to be a part of a capstone project for a NASA mission? The NASA Psyche Mission offers capstone projects to undergraduate students...
11-12-2019
Psyche’s Story
...its mantle, leaving only core material. The mission to Psyche may be able to tell us about how planets everywhere form and about what’s inside the...
12-07-2017
Psyche Spacecraft Chassis Arrival at JPL
...A spacecraft’s journey doesn’t begin on the launchpad. Our Psyche spacecraft will explore an asteroid, but first we have to finish building it....
03-29-2021
Meet NASA’s Psyche Team Who Will Measure the Asteroid’s Magnetic Field
...NASA’s Psyche team will measure the asteroid’s magnetic field using a magnetometer. This instrument is composed of two identical high-sensitivity...
06-30-2021
NASA’s Psyche Mission to an Asteroid: Official NASA Trailer
...Join the journey as NASA’s Psyche mission team launches in 2022 to explore a unique metallic asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. The...
05-05-2022
Psyche Close-up
...This artist’s conception shows a close-up of the surface of the Psyche asteroid....
01-10-2018
Psyche Multispectral Imager: First Light
...A so-called “First Light” photo taken using the prototype Imager electronics and CCD but with no filters yet and only simple, non-flight-like...
04-20-2020
Psyche Multispectral Imager: Green Filter
...Psyche’s first filters have arrived! The image shows an example of one of the glass color filters that will go into the rectangular holes in the filter...
04-21-2020
Psyche Spacecraft Prepares for Transport
...Maxar engineers prepare the Psyche spacecraft bus for transport to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. Credit: Maxar Technologies...
03-29-2021
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) Psyche Team
...The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) Psyche team gathered earlier this summer for a reception in Building 200. Members of the team hold...
09-02-2021
Psyche Collision Illustration
...This artist’s illustration imagines a violent collision early in Psyche’s history....
06-16-2021
Psyche Impact Illustration
...This artist’s illustration imagines a violent collision early in Psyche’s history....
06-16-2021
Psyche Spacecraft Prepares for Transport
...The Maxar team prepares the Psyche Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Chassis for shipment to NASA’s JPL. Credit: Maxar Technologies...
03-29-2021
Psyche Spacecraft Prepares for Transport
...The Maxar team prepares the Psyche Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Chassis for shipment to NASA’s JPL. Credit: Maxar Technologies...
03-29-2021
Psyche Spacecraft Prepares for Transport
...The Maxar team prepares the Psyche Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Chassis for shipment to NASA’s JPL. Credit: Maxar Technologies...
03-29-2021
Psyche Spacecraft
...The Psyche spacecraft is making progress in Maxar’s Palo Alto, California manufacturing facility. In the last few weeks, the solar electric propulsion...
10-22-2020
Psyche Spacecraft Prepares for Transport
...The Maxar team prepares the Psyche Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Chassis for shipment to NASA’s JPL. Credit: Maxar Technologies...
03-29-2021
Psyche Multispectral Imager Filter Wheel
...A photo of one of the Psyche Multispectral Imager flight filter wheels, recently completed by Malin Space Science Systems’ mechanisms subcontractor...
04-20-2020
Artist’s Conception of the Psyche Asteroid
...This artist’s conception shows a close-up of the Psyche asteroid. Image Credit: Peter Rubin...
02-05-2018
Psyche Spacecraft: High Gain Antenna
Psyche’s high gain antenna has completed fabrication and is undergoing standard testing in Maxar’s Near Field Range to verify that it will work as...
12-01-2020
Testing the Psyche Spacecraft
Psyche’s spacecraft body being tested at Maxar’s Palo Alto, California manufacturing facility.
04-16-2020
Integration of Part of Psyche’s Electric Propulsion Subsystem
A Maxar technician prepares to integrate part of Psyche’s electric propulsion subsystem.
04-16-2020
Psyche Spacecraft
...The Psyche spacecraft is making progress in Maxar’s Palo Alto, California manufacturing facility. In the last few weeks, the solar electric propulsion...
10-22-2020
Psyche Spacecraft
...The Psyche spacecraft is making progress in Maxar’s Palo Alto, California manufacturing facility. In the last few weeks, the solar electric propulsion...
10-22-2020
Psyche Spacecraft
...The Psyche spacecraft is making progress in Maxar’s Palo Alto, California manufacturing facility. In the last few weeks, the solar electric propulsion...
10-22-2020
Psyche Spacecraft
...The Psyche spacecraft is making progress in Maxar’s Palo Alto, California manufacturing facility. In the last few weeks, the solar electric propulsion...
10-22-2020
Psyche Mission
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12-07-2017
ASU KEDtalk: Psyche – Journey to a Metal World
Lindy Elkins-Tanton is a planetary scientist and director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. She’s also one of...
12-03-2017
Psyche
10-16-2018
Gamma-Ray Spectrometer
...Images of the Psyche Gamma-Ray Spectrometer flight unit lid with its “special part number,” next to the fully-built engineering test unit. This...
10-29-2020
Engineering Process Part 2
...Watch this video to learn about the engineering process and see how it is implemented in real life with the NASA Psyche Mission! Downloadable video...
12-31-2019
Jim Bell
...Dr. Jim Bell, Psyche Deputy Principal Investigator....
12-03-2017
DSOC in High Bay 2
...The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration arrived at JPL’s High Bay 2 in preparation for integration onto the Psyche...
06-22-2021