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Psyche Flight Systems Engineer Christina Hernandez – Behind the Spacecraft Meet Christina Hernandez, a flight systems engineer on NASA’s Psyche mission, which will be the first to explore a metal-rich asteroid, also named Psyche.... 08-22-2023
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New Video Series Reveals What Drives NASA’s Psyche Mission Team These short videos offer glimpses of the people who’ve helped make this upcoming journey to a metal-rich asteroid possible What motivates someone to... 08-21-2023
NASA’s Psyche Gets Its Huge Solar Arrays Permanently Installed The solar arrays for NASA’s Psyche mission underwent a final deployment test and were permanently installed on the spacecraft at Astrotech Space Operations... 08-03-2023
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NASA’s Psyche Mission to an Asteroid: Official NASA Trailer Join the journey as NASA’s Psyche mission team prepares for a targeted Oct. 5, 2023, launch to explore a unique metallic asteroid orbiting the sun between... 07-18-2023
Is NASA Mining Asteroids? We Asked a NASA Expert Is NASA mining asteroids? No, we’re not in the business of mining asteroids but we do love to study them. This year, our #PsycheMission launches to a... 06-28-2023
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
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 magnetic... 06-30-2021
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. Psyche... 03-29-2021
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 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
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
Engineering Process Part 1 Do you know what the engineering process is and how it is used? Watch this video to learn how scientist and engineers tackle real world problems and come... 12-31-2019
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 options 12-31-2019
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
This is an image of Psyche Mission Science Team Co-Investigator Simone Marchi of the Southwest Research Institute.
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 on... 09-05-2019
This image shows a subset of the Psyche Inspired interns in front of the Psyche Inspired Showcase photo booth.
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 by:... 04-12-2018