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Elon Musk-led SpaceX is set to launch NASA’s mission to asteroid Psyche today. The mission will launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the Falcon Heavy rocket.

Boston MA (SPX) Oct 12, 2023 - If all goes well, on Thursday morning a NASA mission with extensive connections to MIT will be headed to a metal world. Psyche, a van-sized spacecraft with winglike solar panels, is scheduled

US News: Psyche spacecraft, set to launch on October 12, will explore the asteroid Psyche, a unique metal-rich object that is thought to be the exposed core of

NASAs Psyche spacecraft is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on October 12. This mission, part of NASAs Discovery Program, aims to study the composition, geology, magnetic field, and gravity of the unique asteroid named Psyche. The spacecraft will employ a solar-electric propulsion system to reach the asteroid, which is located between Mars and Jupiter.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Psyche, NASA's next asteroid mission

NASA’s Psyche mission, a project with deep roots at MIT, is setting course for a metallic space rock that could be the remnant of a planetary core like our own. Its principal investigator is MIT alumna and former professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton, who leads a team including longtime MIT colleagues on the first mission to a metal world.

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The spacecraft is targeting an Oct. 12 liftoff atop a Falcon Heavy rocket. Its destination, a metal-rich asteroid, may tell us more about how planets form.

NASAs first mission designed to study a metal-rich asteroid, Psyche, will also be the first planetary mission to launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

Slated to launch on Oct. 12 with the Psyche mission, DSOC will demonstrate technologies enabling the agency to transmit higher data rates from deep space.