NASA and SpaceX are expected to launch a spacecraft to investigate the metal-rich asteroid 'Psyche' on Oct. 12, officials announced Thursday.
FOX News correspondent Jonathan Serrie reports on the arrival in Utah of a capsule carrying asteroid samples on ‘Special Report.’The launch of the Psyche spacecraft was pushed back a week, with a new target date of Oct. 12 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida,
"The change allows the NASA team to complete verifications of the parameters used to control the Psyche spacecraft’s nitrogen cold gas thrusters," the post read."These thrusters are used to point the vehicle in support of science, power, thermal and other demands, such as spacecraft orientation and momentum management."
The team said the parameters had to be adjusted due to warmer temperature predictions for the spacecraft’s thrusters. NASA said operating the thrusters within temperature limits is"essential" to their long-term health.solar-electric propulsion and gravity-assisted maneuvering on its six-year journey to Psyche. There, it will spend about 26 months orbiting the asteroid to study the body.
NASA’s spacecraft will take a spiral path to the asteroid Psyche. It is expected to arrive at the asteroid about six years after its launch. "These missions take so many people and so much meticulous, rigorous, personally driven work," Lindy Elkins-Tanton, principal investigator for Psyche at Arizona State University, said in a NASA post last month."I am ready to be ecstatic. We all are, but we are not ecstatic yet.
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