Tag: Maxar Technologies

This image is of the main body of the spacecraft (the bus) in a factory space surrounded by engineers.

April 21, 2021 / Danya Gainor

A brain, a body and courage — but it’s not the Wizard of Oz

By Peter Lord (Maxar), David Oh (JPL), and Steven Scott (Maxar) as told to Danya Gainor As the Psyche spacecraft transitions into its ATLO (assembly, test, launch, and operations) phase, the...

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...