Tag: engineering

November 2, 2023 / Paige Arthur

Last Glimpse

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...
psyche team

August 21, 2023 / NASA

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...
The Psyche spacecraft sits in a clean room at JPL.

April 14, 2022 / Scott Bordow

From a Clean Room to Deep Space

Media gets final glimpse of ASU’s Psyche spacecraft before it’s on its way to Florida launch. Read the story

The chart shows a visual depiction of the car analogy of fault management described in the blog.

March 8, 2022 / Danielle M. Marsh

Designing the Psyche Spacecraft for the Off-Nominal

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...
panoramic view of JPL's High Bay 2 area showing the bus (body) of the spacecraft and some engineers

August 24, 2021 / Karin Valentine

ASU-led NASA Psyche mission is a year out from launch

The anticipation is building for the Arizona State University-led NASA Psyche mission team, as the countdown clock now displays the mission’s launch as less than 365 days away. This mission,...
panoramic view of JPL's High Bay 2 area showing the bus (body) of the spacecraft and some engineers

August 24, 2021 / Jet Propulsion Laboratory

One Year Out: NASA’s Psyche Mission Moves Closer to Launch

As part of NASA’s Discovery Program, the mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid is well on its way to an August 2022 launch. With NASA’s Psyche mission now less than a year from launch,...

June 14, 2021 / Paige Arthur

Tales From Testbed

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...
Psyche Mission trajectory and orbit plan

August 10, 2020 / Bill Hart

When does Mass = Power?

Some thoughts on margins This probably shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, but one of my favorite movies is ‘The Martian’. I am a big fan of sci-fi-thrillers, especially if they are...

July 7, 2020 / NASA

Building NASA’s Psyche: Design Done, Now Full Speed Ahead on Hardware

The mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid is pivoting from planning the details to building real pieces of the spacecraft puzzle. Psyche, the NASA mission to explore a metal-rock asteroid...

August 6, 2019 / Bill Hart

Some thoughts on trade studies

When I was an undergrad student at a university in northern Indiana with a penchant for football, Wednesday and Thursday nights were reserved for one thing: homework. I wasn’t necessarily driven...

March 26, 2019 / Steve Scott

Psyche Spacecraft Sails through NASA Design Review

After completing an extensive NASA design review, humanity is one-step closer to exploring an all-metal world called 16 Psyche. As previously announced, Maxar’s Space Solutions team is working...
Students working with machinery and are experimenting.

January 30, 2019 / Karin Valentine

NASA’s Psyche Mission inspires science and engineering students nationwide

While instruments and components of the spacecraft are under development across the country, the Psyche Mission management team, led by Arizona State University, is working with universities...