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The switch fixed a solar electric propulsion problem first detected in April - where engineers noticed a pressure drop in the ...
On Tuesday (April 29), NASA announced that its Psyche probe has suffered a setback concerning its propulsion system while nearly 150 million miles (238 million kilometers) from our planet. The boxy, ...
The spacecraft is en route to a metal-rich asteroid. Hopefully, its backup propellant line can get it there by August 2029.
You might have heard that the asteroid 16 Psyche, the target of NASA's upcoming Psyche mission, is worth $100,000 quadrillion. But how can you really pinpoint an asteroid's monetary value?
The asteroid, named 16 Psyche, is located in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. It is thought to be chock-full of valuable metals like gold, platinum and cobalt and therefore possibly ...
Getting off to a ground-shaking start, NASA's $1.2 billion Psyche asteroid probe roared into space atop a Falcon Heavy rocket Friday, setting off on a 2.2-billion-mile voyage to a rare ...
The asteroid 16 Psyche is pretty unusual for the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Measuring an enormous 173 miles (280 kilometers) at its widest, the potato-shaped object was once ...
NASA has launched its first mission to a mysterious world made largely of metal, on a journey to find out whether the asteroid is the exposed core of an early planetary building block from the ...
This mission, named Psyche, will survey its namesake asteroid for at least 26 months, moving to different altitudes to map the metal world with three science instruments. Like all missions ...
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Is asteroid Psyche actually a planetary core? James Webb Space Telescope results cast doubtHydrated minerals have paradoxically been found by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on the surface of 16 Psyche, a metallic asteroid that's the target of a NASA mission that launched in ...
NASA has decided to switch to a backup propellant line on its Psyche asteroid mission to allow the spacecraft to resume use ...
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