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Science Briefing on Tap Today for NASA’s Mission to Psyche

Teams transport NASA's encapsulated Psyche spacecraft from the Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville to Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. Psyche will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
Teams transport NASA’s encapsulated Psyche spacecraft from the Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville to Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

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 the briefing using #AskNASA.

Participants include:

  • Lori Glaze, Planetary Science Division director, NASA Headquarters
  • Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Psyche principal investigator, Arizona State University
  • Ben Weiss, Psyche deputy principal investigator and magnetometer lead, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • David Oh, chief engineer for operations, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
  • Abi Biswas, project technologist for Deep Space Optical Communications, JPL

Also tune in to NASA Television, the agency website, NASA app, or YouTube at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 11, for a prelaunch news briefing featuring NASA senior leaders and Psyche mission managers discussing the mission.

Liftoff of the mission to the asteroid Psyche is targeted for 10:16 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 12, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

To learn more about the Psyche mission, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/psyche

To learn more about the DSOC demonstration, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/dsoc/index.html

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