NASA's Psyche DAPM Deployment and Stow for Launch

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A team of engineers and technicians worked on
deploying and stowing stationary plasma thrusters
(SPT) on NASA's Psyche spacecraft inside the Astrotech
Space Operations Facility near the agency's Kennedy
Space Center in Florida on Aug. 4, 2023. This is part of
the assembly, test, and launch operations preparations.
The SPT are on a dual axis positioning mechanism, the
DAPM, and together they make a DSM, or DAPM-
Actuated SPT Module. 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.

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