Psyche, NASA's mission to a huge metallic asteroid, lifts off on Oct. 12. Here's what you need to know.
Psyche, NASA's mission to a huge metallic asteroid, lifts off on Oct. 12. Here's what you need to know.
Blasting off on Oct. 12., the NASA mission to visit the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche aims to find crucial clues about the formation of our solar system's planets.
Now Friday Oct 13 due to weather.
https://x.com/nasajpl/status/1712242350242603118?s=61&t=W62IdkZsgpkboTsRYHalRw
JPL needs to get off of exTwitter. I am not feeding that site anymore traffic.
I'd love to see a NASA-hosted Mastodon insance. Until then, you can use a FOSS Xitter viewer like nitter:
https://nitter.net/nasajpl/status/1712242350242603118
Update: Due to unfavorable weather conditions, #MissionToPsyche is now targeting a Friday, Oct. 13, launch. go.nasa.gov/45qCd0T
(Yes… Friday the 13th. How metal is that?? 🤘)
So will it eventually crash onto the asteroid?
Very cool if it gets there though, ion thrusters (super feeble thrust) + a slingshot maneuver feels really tricky!