{"id":767712,"date":"2023-10-04T09:29:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T13:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=767712"},"modified":"2023-10-04T09:29:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T13:29:03","slug":"nasa-invites-public-to-share-in-excitement-of-psyche-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=767712","title":{"rendered":"NASA Invites Public to Share in Excitement of Psyche Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Psyche mission team members prepare the spacecraft at a facility near NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in late July, just after the solar arrays were folded and stowed.<\/div>\n
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NASA is inviting the public to take part in virtual activities ahead of the launch of NASA\u2019s Psyche<\/a> spacecraft. The Psyche spacecraft will travel about 2.2 billion miles to study a metal-rich asteroid of the same name. The asteroid, which lies in the outer portion of the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, may be part of a core of a planetesimal (a building block of a planet) and can tell us more about planetary cores and Earth\u2019s own formation.<\/p>\n

Psyche is targeting liftoff at 10:16 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 12, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft also is hosting a technology demonstration, NASA\u2019s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC), which will be the first test of laser communications beyond the Moon.<\/p>\n

Members of the public can\u00a0register<\/a> to attend the launch virtually. As a virtual guest, you have access to curated resources, schedule changes, and mission-specific information delivered straight to your inbox. Following each activity, virtual guests will receive a commemorative stamp for their virtual guest passport.<\/p>\n

The live launch broadcast will begin at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 12, and will air on YouTube<\/a>, X<\/a>, Facebook<\/a>, Twitch<\/a>, Daily Motion<\/a>, the NASA app<\/a>, www.nasa.gov\/nasatv<\/a>, and NASA\u2019s UHD Channel.<\/p>\n

For more information about the Psyche mission, visit:\u00a0https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/psyche<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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