Tag: spacecraft

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December 5, 2023 / Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA’s Psyche Delivers First Images and Other Data

The mission team has celebrated several successes since its launch from Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 13, 2023. The latest is the operation of the spacecraft’s cameras. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft...
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August 30, 2023 / NASA

Play Bingo While Watching the Psyche Spacecraft Launch!

In October 2023, NASA will launch the Psyche mission, a journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. What makes the asteroid Psyche unique is that it may...
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August 16, 2023 / NASA

Psyche Spacecraft Headed for Xenon Fueling

Psyche’s solar electric propulsion will use large solar arrays to convert sunlight into electricity, which will power four Hall thrusters. The thrusters will use electric and magnetic fields...

August 3, 2023 / NASA

Solar Arrays Successfully Installed on NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has completed another milestone. Solar arrays are now ready to power the spacecraft on a 2.5-billion-mile (4-billion-kilometer) journey to a metal-rich asteroid to...

August 3, 2023 / NASA

Solar Arrays Successfully Installed on NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has completed another milestone. Solar arrays are now ready to power the spacecraft on a 2.5-billion-mile (4-billion-kilometer) journey to a metal-rich asteroid to...
The high gain antenna of NASA’s Psyche spacecraft takes center stage in this photo, captured at the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

July 18, 2023 / NASA

NASA’s Psyche Mission Enters Home Stretch Before Launch

With less than 100 days to go before its Oct. 5 launch, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is undergoing final preparations at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Teams of engineers and technicians are working...
This artist's conception shows the Psyche spacecraft against a starry background orbiting above the heavily cratered surface of the Psyche asteroid.

July 20, 2022 / NASA

Board Begins Review of NASA’s Psyche Mission

On July 19, Psyche’s independent review board met for the first time. The focus is on understanding technical issues that led to the delay, how the risk of delay was or was not understood...
This artist's conception shows a close-up of the heavily cratered surface of the Psyche asteroid.

July 14, 2022 / NASA

NASA Begins Psyche Mission Review

NASA’s Science Mission Directorate and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have commissioned an independent review to examine project and institutional issues that led to the Psyche mission missing...

June 22, 2022 / NASA

Psyche Mission Update

NASA’s Psyche mission team continues to assess ongoing issues with the spacecraft’s flight software. The team is evaluating its ability to meet a schedule to launch in 2022 – the current...

June 9, 2022 / Maxar Technologies

Exploring Deep Space with Maxar

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 24, 2022 / NASA

NASA’s Psyche Mission Launch Update

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is nearing the final stages of preparations for launch, and the mission team is working to confirm that all hardware and software systems are operating correctly....
NASA's Psyche spacecraft arrives at Kennedy Space Center's Launch and Landing Facility in Florida.

May 2, 2022 / NASA

NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Arrives at Kennedy

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...