Launch Readiness Review Concludes, Psyche ‘Go’ for Launch
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 live on NASA Television, the agency website, the NASA app, and YouTube channel. The public may ask questions on social media during the briefing using #AskNASA.
Participants include:
- NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana
- Nicola Fox, associate administrator, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate
- Henry Stone, Psyche project manager, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Tim Dunn, senior launch director, NASA’s Launch Services Program
- Julianna Scheiman, director, Civil Satellite Missions, SpaceX
- Arlena Moses, launch weather officer, U.S. Space Force Space
Meteorologists with the U.S. Space Force’s Space Launch Delta 45 Weather Squadron are predicting a 20% chance of favorable weather conditions for launch, which is targeting 10:16 a.m. on Oct. 12 from Launch Complex 39A.
Integrated on the Psyche spacecraft is NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment, the agency’s first demonstration of optical communications beyond the Earth-Moon system.
To learn more about the Psyche mission, visit:
To learn more about the DSOC demonstration, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission/deep-space-optical-communications-dsoc/
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