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The Psyche spacecraft will journey 2.2 billion miles to an asteroid that scientists hypothesize is made of substantial amounts of metal. It may contain leftover material from the core of a planetesimal, a building block of an early planet, and could tell us more about how the solar system formed. The mission will use a magnetometer, a gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer, and a multispectral imager to study this unique planetary body. In this science briefing, experts on the mission will provide insight into how the instruments aboard Psyche will investigate Psyche’s magnetic field, its chemical composition, and its surface features. Participants: Lori Glaze, NASA's Planetary Sciences Division director, NASA Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Psyche principal investigator, Arizona State University Ben Weiss, deputy PI and magnetometer lead, Massachusetts Institute of Technology David Oh, chief engineer for operations, NASA JPL Abi Biswas, Deep Space Optical Communications project technologist, NASA JPL

Our Webb Space Telescope’s new look at an exploded star, teams prepare to install some Moon rocket hardware, and completing NASA’s first two-way, end-to-end laser relay system … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! Link to download this video: https://images.nasa.gov/details/Our%2... Video Producer: Andre Valentine Video Editor: Andre Valentine Narrator: Emanuel Cooper Music: Universal Production Music Credit: NASA

As NASA prepares to send humans back to the Moon, we will send science and technology instruments ahead of time to lay the foundation for a sustainable human presence. Through NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS initiative, we are enabling American companies to send our science experiments and technologies to the lunar surface for us. This unique commercial delivery service is poised to change the way we work and perform science at the Moon, greatly expanding our capabilities for exploration. Learn more about this innovative approach: