NASA's Psyche Mission to a Metallic Asteroid: Preparing for Fall 2023 Launch

NASA's Psyche Mission to a Metallic Asteroid: Preparing for Fall 2023 Launch

Join the journey as NASA’s Psyche mission team prepares for a launch, no earlier than Oct. 5, 2023, to explore a unique metallic asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid, likely made largely of nickel-iron metal mixed with rock, could contain metal from the core of a planetesimal (the building block of an early rocky planet) and may offer a unique window into the violent history of collisions and accretion that created the terrestrial planets like Earth. Arizona State University (ASU) leads the Psyche mission.

Learn more about NASA's Psyche Mission:

http://www.nasa.gov/psyche and https://psyche.asu.edu/

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which is managed by Caltech for NASA, is responsible for the mission’s overall management, system engineering, integration and test, and mission operations. Maxar Technologies in Palo Alto, California, provided the high-power solar electric propulsion spacecraft chassis. 

Credit: NASA

Duration: 3 minute, 24 seconds

Release Date: July 18, 2023

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