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    NASA Invites Digital Content Creators to Cover Psyche Launch

    The Psyche mission is scheduled to lift off at 10:38 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 5, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

    Digital content creators are invited to register to attend the launch of NASA's Psyche spacecraft and create content based on the experience. The Psyche mission will journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. Psyche is scheduled to lift off at 10:38 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 5, on a …

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    Psyche Spacecraft Headed for Xenon Fueling

    NASA's Psyche spacecraft is crated and moved by truck to Astrotech Building 9 for xenon fueling.

    NASA's Psyche spacecraft took another step closer on its upcoming journey to a metal-rich asteroid of the same name. On Aug. 14, a team of technicians and engineers moved the spacecraft from Building 1 to Building 9 at Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Inside Building 9, technicians will load …

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    Solar Arrays Successfully Installed on NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft

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    NASA's Psyche spacecraft has completed another milestone. Solar arrays are now ready to power the spacecraft on a 2.5-billion-mile (4-billion-kilometer) journey to a metal-rich asteroid to help us learn more about planet formation. A team of engineers and technicians received, prepared, and installed the solar arrays on the spacecraft at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility …

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