October 22, 2020
The Psyche spacecraft is making progress in Maxar’s Palo Alto, California manufacturing facility. In the last few weeks, the solar electric propulsion (SEP) chassis had its equipment panels...
July 14, 2020
This artist’s concept, updated as of June 2020, depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. Set to launch in August 2022, the Psyche mission will explore a metal-rich asteroid of the same name...
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 Alto, California, where a technician prepares...
Psyche engineers adapted to COVID-19 social distancing and masking requirements while testing the Hall thrusters that will propel NASA’s Psyche spacecraft on its journey to the main asteroid...
Engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, continue to make progress on Psyche’s spectrometer while observing COVID-19 safety procedures. Engineers...
April 21, 2020
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 wheel. This one is a green filter (wavelength...
April 20, 2020
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 optics. The Psyche electronics and CCD...
A photo of one of the Psyche Multispectral Imager flight filter wheels, recently completed by Malin Space Science Systems’ mechanisms subcontractor Motiv Space Systems. (For scale, the...
April 16, 2020
Psyche’s spacecraft body being tested at Maxar’s Palo Alto, California manufacturing facility.
A Maxar technician prepares to integrate part of Psyche’s electric propulsion subsystem.
October 16, 2018
