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NASA plans on testing an innovative new way to communicate with deep space probes, and step one depends on the success of the Psyche mission.

With the completion of a comprehensive flight software test campaign, NASA engineers are "counting down the days" as the metal-rich-asteroid-bound Psyche probe nears its October launch date.

NASA's first mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid, Psyche, which was scheduled to launch in 2022, will be delayed, according to the agency’s announcement made on Friday.

Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere mapped the surface properties of the asteroid Psyche, revealing a landscape of metal and rock.

Across this region, which is, of course, very much unseasonably cold. you'll notice it does moderate out just a little bit and dry weather into 2022. but still looks to remain average. looking to new year's eve, trouble spots around the four corners region, tennessee valley, that's where a few showers are possible. beyond that, not a bad set up. new york city 51 degrees around midnight. cloudy conditions and winds going to be general on the light side. temperatures pretty impressive. in houston, up about 80 degrees warmer, climbing up into the lower 80s. send it back to you. >> thanks, pedram....