NASA Psyche Media Day

NASA hosted media for a final visit NASA's Psyche spacecraft inside the Astro tech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on August 11, 2023. Psyche is rapidly completely its launch preparation, and teams will soon fuel it with xenon. Psyche will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy. Launch is targeted for Oct. 5, 2023. Riding with Psyche is a pioneering technology demonstration, NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment.