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NASA hopes to get a glimpse at the metal core hidden deep within Earth — by sending a spacecraft to an asteroid 280 million miles away.
Long wait nearly over for Psyche asteroid probe’s Space Coast launch – Orlando Sentinel
TITUSVILLE — Just off a tree-covered side road past businesses selling boats and fishing gear sits a fenced-off building that’s home to a $700 million satellite nearly ready for launch.
The probe, which also is named Psyche, awaits an October trip to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center. But after missing a chance to launch in 2022, NASA parked it at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility across the river where it has been sitting in the center of the stark, white clean room.
New territory, NASA set to launch mission to metal rich asteroid
Clean room engineers prepare the Psyche mission spacecraft inside a Spacecraft Assembly Facility clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on April 11, 2022 in Pasadena, California.
There is no denying the leap in discoveries and advancement NASA has conquered in the past few years with never before seen images from the James Webb Telescope to the Artemis mission preparing to travel to the dark side of the moon along with the upcoming launch of the Psyche mission, the ...
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