Psyche Set To Soar: NASA’s Date With a Metal-Rich Asteroid

Now that fueling and testing are complete, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is ready to meet its ride – a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The launch is now targeting 10:34 a.m. EDT on Thursday, October 5 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after optimizing the trajectory for the mi

Now that fueling and testing are complete,Falcon Heavy rocket. The launch is now targeting 10:34 a.m.on Thursday, October 5 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after optimizing the trajectory for the mission to study a metal-rich asteroid.Technicians connected Psyche to the payload attach fitting at Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Florida.

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy test flight launches from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on February 6, 2018. Credit: SpaceXSpaceX’s Falcon Heavy is a powerful and partially reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle, conceived by Elon Musk’s space exploration company. Essentially an amalgamation of three Falcon 9 first-stage cores, the Falcon Heavy boasts a staggering 27 engines that fire simultaneously at liftoff.

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