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The robotic spacecraft Psyche has regained propulsion after a snag cut its propellant system in April. Engineers had to ...
1 of 5 | NASA's Psyche satellite sits at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Fla., not far from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday.
The Psyche spacecraft, built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory using a modified satellite body provided by Maxar, will attempt to answer those questions and many more during 26 months of close ...
NASA's Psyche mission, to explore its namesake asteroid, will launch in October. Now that everything is good and ready, the agency is about to start loading the satellite into the SpaceX Falcon ...
The Psyche satellite is heading to what scientists think is a metal-rich asteroid also named Psyche. It’s one of only nine known such asteroids out of more than 1 million known asteroids, and by ...
Looking across the water, the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket stood ready for launch Friday morning, carrying the Psyche satellite. The timer, counting down the time until launch, built anticipation with ...
NASA has sent a cat video some 31 million kilometers (19 million miles). The space agency used a deep space laser onboard the Psyche satellite to beam the video down to Earth.
NASA has removed the twin Janus smallsats from the Psyche asteroid mission after launch delays meant Janus would not be able to meet its science goals.
SpaceX dominates the headlines this week, with its incipient Starship launch attempt, the Commercial Crew flights to and from the International Space Station, and the Falcon Heavy that will carry ...
The satellite is now on schedule to fly by Mars in May 2026—and then slingshot into orbit around a very unusual asteroid (also named Psyche) in August 2029. News Today's news ...
The space agency used a deep space laser onboard the Psyche satellite to beam the video down to Earth. The latest Deep Space Optical Communications experiment comes after NASA first sent a ...