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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s powerhouse Falcon Heavy rocket has flown commercial satellites, secret Department of Defense payloads and Elon Musk’s Tesla roadster into space. Now NASA is banking on the rocket for the first time, aiming to send a probe named Psyche to an asteroid with the same name this week. The rocket that has the power of three Falcon 9’s essentially strapped together ...
Slated to launch on Oct. 13 with the Psyche mission, DSOC will demonstrate technologies enabling the agency to transmit higher data rates from deep space.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — SpaceX’s powerhouse Falcon Heavy rocket has flown commercial satellites, secret Department of Defense payloads and Elon Musk’s Tesla roadster into space. Now NASA is banking on the rocket for the first time, aiming to send a probe named Psyche to an asteroid with the same name this week. The rocket that has the power of three Falcon 9’s essentially strapped ...
The distant metallic asteroid named Psyche bears similarities to Earth's own core. That's why NASA scientists have wanted to study it for years.
The Psyche spacecraft will journey 2.2 billion miles to study a metal-rich asteroid believed to have been a potential building block for a planet.