Psyche

NASA’s Psyche mission is already 16 million miles away from Earth, barreling toward its targeted asteroid, where it will conduct a full study of the cosmic body that shares its name. Now, NASA has shared the first Psyche images, which were recently beamed back to Earth, giving us a glimpse of what Psyche is already able to see.Psyche originally launched back in October, and has spent the past month and some weeks traveling through space on its multi-year journey to reach the asteroid Psyche, a main belt asteroid…

NASA on October 13, launched the Psyche mission from Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The asteroid mission took flight on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The Psyche mission objectives include the study of the metal-rich asteroid named Psyche. It is an asteroid exploration project which aims to study Psyche asteroid's core, surface, relative ages of regions, and more. The mission has excited the scientific community and the public globally. So, will India ever undertake such an asteroid mission? Know…

A gold-capped laser transceiver attached to the asteroid probe Psyche saw its first light on Tuesday, sending and receiving data through laser beams from far beyond the Moon for the first time.The Hunger Games Director Francis Lawrence on Adapting a PrequelNASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment beamed data encoded within a near-infrared laser from nearly 10 million miles in deep space (16 million kilometers) to the Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, the…

US space agency NASA's Psyche spacecraft is in the final stages of preparation for its launch at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The scheduled launch is on October 5 and a dedicated team of engineers and technicians is working to ensure that the orbiter is fully ready for its momentous 2.5 billion miles (4 billion kilometers) journey to reach an asteroid that has a massive amount of metal in it. This is the Asteroid Psyche, The various teams are working to ensure that the spacecraft is fully ready for this incredible…

NASA is going to store a pair of spacecraft at a facility, awaiting a second chance to go to space should the agency find a new purpose for them.First Full-Color Images From Webb Space TelescopeFollowing months of uncertainty, NASA announced that it was officially calling off the Janus mission to study two separate binary asteroid systems. Janus’ twin spacecraft are being prepared for “long-term storage” awaiting future funding that could possibly utilize the spacecraft for another mission. The mission, selected as part…

NASA is planning an exciting mission to explore a unique asteroid called 16 Psyche. This golf ball-shaped space rock orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, in the asteroid belt, at a distance of over 376 million kilometers.What makes 16 Psyche so special is that it's not your average asteroid. It's loaded with valuable metals like iron, nickel, and even gold. In fact, scientists believe this space rock is worth an astonishing $10,000 quadrillion! That's way more valuable than everything on Earth combined. If we could…

Asteroid 16 Psyche is estimated to be worth $10,000 quadrillion. The asteroid was originally discovered by Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis in 1852 and has been an intriguing object since then. NASA planned to launch its Psyche mission in 2022, and mission construction on it was going well in 2021. However, the mission was delayed. Now, NASA is finally ready to greenlight a launch date for the task and it’s happening this fall. According to new reports from Chron, the Psyche mission will see a…

An independent review board has given a positive assessment of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Caltech’s efforts to put the Psyche mission back on track for a launch in October 2023. This follows a delay in the mission’s 2022 launch to a metal-rich asteroid due to issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors such as staffing, communication, and management oversight. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASUReview Board: NASA-JPL Psyche Progress Outstanding, Launch on TrackAn independent review board praised the…

It’s been a rough ride for NASA’s Psyche mission even before the spacecraft has had a chance to leave the ground. Things are looking brighter, however, as the highly anticipated mission is all set for its new launch date in October, marking a second chance to explore one of the most intriguing objects in our solar system.NASA Delays Return to Earth's Evil Twin, VenusPsyche was originally scheduled to launch in August 2022 to explore the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche. Two months before liftoff, NASA delayed the launch of…

A space advocacy organization is rallying the scientific community in an effort to revive NASA’s VERITAS mission to Venus, which has been delayed indefinitely due to staff and budgeting issues at the space agency.Astronomers Could Soon Get Warnings When SpaceX Satellites Threaten Their ViewThis week, the Planetary Society published an open letter to Congress calling for a 2029 launch date for the Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy (VERITAS) mission. The letter has already been signed by…