Gallery Type: Videos & Animations

September 13, 2023

Psyche Solar Electric Propulsion Engineer Julie Li – Behind the Spacecraft

Join us LIVE as we chat with Julie Li, an engineer on NASA’s Psyche mission, which will be the first to explore a metal-rich asteroid. Li, of Maxar Technologies, will share how the Psyche team...
Psyche Power System Engineer Ben Inouye – Behind the Spacecraft

September 7, 2023

Psyche Power System Engineer Ben Inouye – Behind the Spacecraft

Meet Ben Inouye, a power system engineer on NASA’s Psyche mission, which will be the first to explore a metal-rich asteroid, also named Psyche. In this video, Inouye, of NASA’s Jet Propulsion...
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August 30, 2023

Psyche Power Electronics Engineer Meena Sreekantamurthy – Behind the Spacecraft

Meet Meena Sreekantamurthy, a power electronics engineer on NASA’s Psyche mission, which will be the first to explore a metal-rich asteroid, also named Psyche. In this video, Sreekantamurthy,...
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August 22, 2023

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. In this video Hernandez, from NASA’s...

August 21, 2023

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 labor for years to help build something...

August 3, 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 near the agency’s Kennedy Space...

July 18, 2023

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 Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid, likely...

June 28, 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 unique metal-rich asteroid to study what...

September 8, 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. The NASA Psyche mission launches...

June 30, 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 field sensors located at the middle...

March 29, 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 has arrived at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,...

July 7, 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, and map Psyche’s elemental composition....