We remain a "go" for launch, with the latest weather update from the U.S. Space Force's 45th Weather Squadron predicting a 85% chance of favorable weather today for liftoff. Teams continue targeting liftoff of NASA's Psyche mission at 10:19 a.m. EDT from Kennedy's Launch Complex 39A. The primary weather concern for the launch area is …
Good morning, and welcome to live launch coverage from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida of the mission to Psyche, a metal-rich world! Psyche is the first mission to explore an asteroid with a surface that likely contains substantial amounts of metal rather than rock or ice. This also will be NASA's Launch Services Program's …
Weather officials with Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's 45th Weather Squadron predict a 40% chance of favorable weather conditions for the launch of NASA's Psyche mission at 10:19 a.m. EDT Friday, Oct. 13, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Showers and storms are expected at …
NASA and SpaceX are standing down from the Oct. 12 launch of the agency's Psyche mission due to unfavorable weather conditions. NASA and SpaceX are now targeting launch at 10:19 a.m. EDT Friday, Oct. 13, from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Live launch coverage without commentary will begin at 9:15 a.m. …
Join the hosts of NASA EDGE today from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A and Hangar AE for the Psyche Rollout Show, airing live on NASA TV and YouTube at 5 p.m. EDT. The hosts of NASA EDGE will take a unique look at NASA's Psyche mission and the agency's first primary launch of a spacecraft …
NASA will host a prelaunch news briefing today at 1 p.m. EDT, to discuss the Psyche mission. NASA and SpaceX completed a launch readiness review Tuesday, Oct. 10, resulting in a "go" for launch of the spacecraft that will study a metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. The prelaunch briefing will air …
Officials from NASA, Arizona State University, and MIT will discuss the launch of Psyche and the Deep Space Optical Communications experiment during a science briefing at 12 p.m. EDT today. The media briefing will air live on NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and on the agency's website. The public may ask questions on social media during …
Weather officials with Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's 45th Weather Squadron predict a 20% chance of favorable weather conditions for Thursday's launch, with the anvil cloud, cumulous cloud, and surface electric field rules being the primary weather concerns. SpaceX is targeting 10:16 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 12, to launch NASA's Psyche spacecraft atop its Falcon …
As the astromaterials curation team at NASA's Johnson Space Center continues to collect the bonus asteroid Bennu particles located outside the OSIRIS-REx TAGSAM (Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism) head, they've also completed additional steps toward disassembly and reveal of the bulk asteroid sample inside the head. Curation scientists removed 14 circular witness plates from the top …
In the early hours of Oct. 6, workers transported NASA's Psyche spacecraft to the SpaceX hangar at Launch Complex 39A at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in preparation for launch. Earlier in the week, technicians completed encapsulation of the spacecraft, along with the DSOC (Deep Space Optical Communications) technology demonstration, inside a clean room at …