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Huge Solar Arrays Permanently Installed on NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft
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The same facility that provided valuable testing for NASA missions to low-Earth orbit and the Moon is now helping the agency prepare to launch the first rocket from Mars. .
Sept. 25, 2023
A computer pilot helps NASA’s six-wheeled geologist as it searches for rock samples that could be brought to Earth for deeper investigation. .
Sept. 21, 2023
The agency established the board in May 2023 to evaluate the technical, cost, and schedule plans prior to confirmation of the mission’s design. .
The JPL-led international team used the island as a stand-in for Venus to test radar technologies that will help uncover the planet’s ground truth. .
Sept. 19, 2023
Believed to be a remnant of powerful ancient debris flows, Gediz Vallis Ridge is a destination long sought by the rover’s science team. .
Sept. 18, 2023
Launching with the NASA mission on Oct. 5, the technology demonstration will test high-bandwidth optical communications in deep space for the first time. .
Sept. 15, 2023
Bound for a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, the Psyche mission is targeting Oct. 5 to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. .
Sept. 6, 2023
Riding with the Perseverance rover, the instrument has proved to be a viable technology for astronauts on Mars to produce oxygen for fuel and breathing. .
Targeting an Oct. 5 launch, the Psyche mission will explore an asteroid that will help answer fundamental questions about the formation of our solar system. .
Sept. 1, 2023
These short videos offer glimpses of the people who’ve helped make this upcoming journey to a metal-rich asteroid possible. .
Aug. 21, 2023
The spacecraft’s Lunar Thermal Mapper science instrument will work with an imaging spectrometer to help researchers understand the nature of water on the Moon’s surface. .
Aug. 16, 2023
The addition of a high-gain antenna will enable the agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft – set to launch in October 2024 – to communicate with mission controllers hundreds of millions of miles away. .
Aug. 15, 2023
