NASA is on the cusp on a unique new mission when its Psyche spacecraft blasts off atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket later this week.
In a backyard telescope, 16 Psyche is tiny. Even in the Hubble Space Telescope it covers just a couple of pixels.
graphic, which is labeled with key milestones of the prime mission. The test periods for NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration are indicated with red dots.The Psyche mission is scheduled to launch at 10:38 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Psyche mission is a journey to a metal asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
Don’t expect shiny glitter. “I would love for it to look like a shiny polished palisade meteorite with shiny silver metal and beautiful golden-green jewel-like silicate minerals in between—but it’s not gonna look like that,” said Elkins-Tanton. “No one’s gone to Psyche, cut it up and and polished it, it’s been hanging out in space getting solar wind hitting it for a really long time.”
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