June 24, 2022 / NASA
NASA announced Friday the Psyche asteroid mission, the agency’s first mission designed to study a metal-rich asteroid, will not make its planned 2022 launch attempt. Read the news release
NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Friday to provide an update on the agency’s mission to study the Psyche asteroid. Audio of the briefing will livestream on the agency’s...
May 2, 2022 / Scott Bordow
Over 4,000 students and lifelong learners from across the nation have taken part in ASU’s Psyche Student Collaborations. Read the story
April 14, 2022 / Scott Bordow
Media gets final glimpse of ASU’s Psyche spacecraft before it’s on its way to Florida launch. Read the story
April 4, 2022 / Jet Propulsion Laboratory
To prepare for its launch in August, the Psyche spacecraft was tested to ensure it can operate in the extreme conditions it will face on its trip to a metal-rich asteroid. Read article
December 20, 2021 / Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Launching in August 2022 and arriving at the asteroid in 2026, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will orbit a world we can barely pinpoint from Earth and have never visited. Read article
June 9, 2022 / Maxar Technologies
As humanity expands its reach throughout the solar system, Maxar continues to invest in new technologies and innovation that will drive us forward. At the beginning of the space race of the 1960s,...
May 2, 2022 / NASA
The Psyche spacecraft completed its journey from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. First, it traveled to March Air Reserve...
March 8, 2022 / Danielle M. Marsh
An Overview of the Psyche Fault Management Design Designing, building, testing, and launching an interplanetary spacecraft like Psyche is one of the most complex engineering achievements of our...
November 16, 2021 / Karin Valentine
The Psyche mission “badge” was first developed in 2016, before the mission was selected for NASA’s Discovery Program. Since then, it has been called a “badge” or a “logo” or even...
October 21, 2021 / David Lawrence and Patrick Peplowski
Building a flight instrument for our asteroid mission Everyone has their story for how they made their way to the Psyche mission. For some of us on the Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer (GRNS)...
June 14, 2021 / Paige Arthur
Windows down, car radio blaring, I decelerate as I pull into Lab and knock the volume of my music down a few notches so I don’t deafen the security officer approaching from the gate. JPL’s...
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