Psyche's liftoff has been pushed from Aug. 1 to no earlier than Sept. 20.
"Those flybys were essential for setting up our flybys of our target binaries, 1991 VH and 1996 FG3," Scheeres said, speaking at a meeting of NASA's Small Bodies Assessment Group , according to SpaceNews.
The mission team is now assessing potential alternative space rocks to fly by, with Scheeres saying"multiple asteroids" have been identified. The target asteroids will be determined by the actual Psyche launch date, which as a rideshare Janus will have to accept, and constraints such as flyby speed and communications data rates.
Janus is part of the NASA Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration program for low-cost planetary science smallsat missions.
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