Behind the Spacecraft: Psyche – Journey to a Metal World (Teaser Trailer)

Meet some of the engineers contributing to NASA’s Psyche mission, which will be the first to explore a metal-rich asteroid, also named Psyche. This trailer previews the team members profiled in the series whose work will help scientists understand the story behind this unusual asteroid.

Whether the asteroid Psyche is the partial core of a planetesimal (one of the building blocks of the rocky planets in our solar system) or primordial material that never melted, scientists expect the mission to help answer fundamental questions about Earth’s own metal core and the formation of our solar system.

Each week,this five-part video series will introduce a Psyche team member who will tell the story of how they came to join the mission: Christina Hernandez, Meena Sreekantamurthy, Ben Inouye, Julie Li, and Luis Dominguez. Join us on this channel on Sept. 13 and 20 for livestreamed Q&As with team members as well.

Psyche’s launch period opens Oct. 5, 2023. The spacecraft will begin orbiting the asteroid Psyche in 2029.

Learn all about our first-of-its-kind #MissionToPsyche at: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/psyche

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