July 18, 2024 / Scott Bordow
These days, Lindy Elkins-Tanton is living out a Talking Heads song lyric: She’s keeping her feet on the ground and her head in the sky. Elkins-Tanton, principal investigator of the Arizona...
May 22, 2024 / Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft passed its six-month checkup with a clean bill of health, and there’s no holding back now. Navigators are firing its futuristic-looking electric thrusters, which...
April 25, 2024 / Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment also interfaced with the Psyche spacecraft’s communication system for the first time, transmitting engineering data to Earth. Riding aboard...
February 8, 2024 / Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Capable of receiving both radio frequency and optical signals, the DSN’s hybrid antenna has tracked and decoded the downlink laser from DSOC, aboard NASA’s Psyche mission. An experimental...
December 22, 2023 / Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The video, featuring a cat named Taters, was sent back from nearly 19 million miles away by NASA’s laser communications demonstration, marking a historic milestone. NASA’s Deep Space Optical...
December 6, 2023 / Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Set 6.5 feet (2 meters) away from NASA’s Psyche spacecraft on the tip of a boom, the mission’s gamma-ray spectrometer (GRS) hummed to life on Nov. 6 for the first time since launch in mid-October....
June 24, 2024 / David Lawrence and Patrick Peplowski
Most people don’t think about weather in space (or that space may even have weather!), but the effects of space weather were hard to miss in early May 2024. The Sun is currently in an agitated...
January 16, 2024 / Brooke Owen
By: Kate Stark, Brooke Owen, and Marc Rassel Kate Stark Since I can remember, space has always fascinated me — so captivating that it sparks my imagination and fills me with awe. My love for...
November 2, 2023 / Paige Arthur
My eyes flew open in the dark. I glanced at the digital clock on my bedside table — 3:30 in the morning, nearly two hours before my alarm was set to go off. Knowing there was no way I could...
October 12, 2023 / NASA
Weather officials with Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th Weather Squadron predict a 40% chance of favorable weather conditions for the launch of NASA’s Psyche mission at 10:19 a.m....
October 11, 2023 / NASA
NASA and SpaceX are standing down from the Oct. 12 launch of the agency’s Psyche mission due to unfavorable weather conditions. NASA and SpaceX are now targeting launch at 10:19 a.m. EDT Friday,...
September 28, 2023 / NASA
NASA and SpaceX are now targeting Oct. 12 at 10:16 a.m. EDT for a Falcon Heavy launch of the Psyche mission from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The change allows the NASA team to...
