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NASA to Discuss Psyche Asteroid Mission

June 24, 2022
Artist's concept depicts NASA's Psyche spacecraft

This artist's concept, updated as of June 2020, depicts NASA's Psyche spacecraft. The Psyche mission will explore a metal-rich asteroid of the same name that lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

The teleconference will be livestreamed today.

NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT) Friday to provide an update on the agency’s mission to study the Psyche asteroid. Audio of the briefing will livestream on the agency’s website.

Teleconference participants include:

  • Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington
  • Laurie Leshin, director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California
  • Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Psyche mission principal investigator, Arizona State University

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