Tag: Hall thruster

May 22, 2024 / Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA’s Psyche Fires Up Its Sci-Fi-Worthy Thrusters

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...

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...