NASA’s Delayed Psyche Launch Presents Major Headache for Ride-Along Mission
Artist’s conception of the twin Janus probes. Image: Lockheed MartinA software glitch has caused the delay of Psyche, a NASA mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid. Two small probes are being included in the launch, but the postponement means they might not be able to rendezvous with their respective target asteroids.Psyche, a probe designed to explore the unusual metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche, is currently undergoing preparations at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Mission engineers recently spotted an anomaly that…