NASA s Psyche mission to an Asteroid - Official NASA Trailer

NASA s Psyche mission to an Asteroid - Official NASA Trailer

Join the journey as NASA's Psyche mission team
prepares for a targeted Oct. 5, 2023, launch to explore
a unique metallic asteroid orbiting the sun between
Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid, likely made largely of
nickel-iron metal mixed with rock, could contain metal
from the core of a planetesimal (the building block of
an early rocky planet) and may offer a unique window
into the violent history of collisions and accretion that
created the terrestrial planets like Earth. Arizona State
University leads the Psyche mission.
JPL, which is managed by Caltech for NASA, is
responsible for the mission's overall management,
system engineering, integration and test, and mission
operations. Maxar Technologies in Palo Alto,
California, provided the high-power solar electric
propulsion spacecraft chassis