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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, lifts off from Kennedy Space Center’s historic Launch Complex 39A in Florida at 10:19 a.m. EDT on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. The Psyche mission will study a metal-rich asteroid with the same name, located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. This is NASA’s first mission to study an asteroid that has more metal than rock or ice. Riding with Psyche is a pioneering technology demonstration – NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment – which will be the first test of laser communications beyond the Moon.
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The Dawn of Space Mining: NASA’s Journey to Metal-Rich Asteroid Psyche

October 21, 2023
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NASA has initiated a groundbreaking mission to the metallic asteroid Psyche, located between Mars and Jupiter, using a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the mission aims to address crucial questions about the formation of our solar system and also assess the asteroid’s [more…]

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