TITUSVILLE, FLORIDA – APRIL 11: People watch as the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from launch … [+] pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 2019 in Titusville, Florida. The rocket is carrying a communications satellite built by Lockheed Martin into orbit. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Getty Images NASA is …
This illustration, created in March 2021, depicts the 140-mile-wide (226-kilometer-wide) asteroid … [+] Psyche, which lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Psyche is the focal point of NASA’s mission of the same name. The Psyche spacecraft is set to launch in August 2022 and arrive at the asteroid in 2026, where …
This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, which will explore a metal-rich asteroid of … [+] the same name that lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Peter Rubin/NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU The first-ever mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid, NASA’s Psyche mission—due to launch on October 5 from Florida—is catching the imagination. Is it …
An artist’s concept of asteroid Psyche. Maxar/ASU/P. Rubin/NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA is on the cusp of a unique new mission when its Psyche spacecraft blasts off atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket later this week. When the solar-powered spacecraft reaches its target in 2029 it will beam back images of a metal-rich asteroid for the first time. …
This artist’s concept depicts the 140-mile-wide (226-kilometer-wide) asteroid Psyche, which lies in … [+] the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU In two weeks one of the highest profile space missions for years will launch from Florida. The launch window for NASA’s Psyche mission opens on Thursday, Oct. 5 and will see spacecraft …
This artist’s concept showcases Psyche, an asteroid located in the primary asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, measuring 140 miles wide (226 kilometers). NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU NASA’s groundbreaking Psyche mission, which aims to investigate the most metallic object ever observed, has been equipped with expansive solar arrays and an innovative communications device utilizing lasers. Scheduled to launch …
Is asteroid Psyche a large nickel-iron core of an early planet? getty In less than 80 days, NASA and SpaceX are set to embark on a groundbreaking mission. They will launch a solar-powered spacecraft on a 2.5 billion-mile (four billion-kilometer) journey to the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The objective is to uncover …