Psyche Stories
This timelapse video shows the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Table Mountain Facility transmitting its 3-kilowatt laser beacon to the agency's DSOC experiment aboard NASA's Psyche mission on June 2, 2025.
In this infrared photograph, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at JPL's Table Mountain Facility beams its laser beacon to the DSOC flight laser transceiver aboard NASA's Psyche spacecraft.
In this infrared photograph, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at NASA JPL's Table Mountain Facility, beams its laser beacon to the DSOC flight laser transceiver aboard NASA's Psyche spacecraft.
The project has exceeded all of its technical goals after two years, setting up the foundations of high-speed communications for NASA’s future human missions to Mars. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology successfully showed that data encoded in lasers could…
NASA's Psyche spacecraft captured images of Earth and our Moon from about 180 million miles (290 kilometers) away in July 2025.
Headed for a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, the Psyche spacecraft successfully calibrated its cameras by looking homeward. On schedule for its 2029 arrival at the asteroid Psyche, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft recently looked back toward home and captured images…
