In approximately 20 minutes, NASA's Psyche spacecraft will lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA Kennedy Space Center's historic Launch Complex 39A in Florida on a first-of-its-kind mission for the agency. Let's look at some facts and figures that make the Psyche mission unique: This will be the first time NASA has …
SpaceX confirms fueling for the second stage of the Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the Psyche spacecraft is underway at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Three Falcon 9 engine cores, each housing nine Merlin engines, make up the Falcon Heavy and combine to generate more than five million pounds of thrust at liftoff – equal to …
NASA just ramped up its coverage of today's Psyche launch, as the live broadcast with commentary has now begun. Tune in to NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, X, Facebook, Twitch, Daily Motion, or the NASA UHD channel starting now for launch day commentary, interviews, and everything you need to know about the launch of …
Moments ago, mission teams polled "go" to begin fueling the Falcon Heavy's three first-stage core boosters. The Falcon Heavy is a two-stage rocket with a central core and two side boosters that uses RP-1 (a refined kerosene) and liquid oxygen (LOX) to fuel its 27 Merlin engines, which combine to generate 5,000,000 pounds of thrust. …
Live Psyche launch coverage without commentary has begun on the NASA Television media channel. The NASA Television media channel provides clean feeds of the agency's news, briefings, and conferences, daily video files from around the agency, and the only available feeds of mission coverage that contain only mission audio and natural sound. The live launch …
We're a little over an hour away from today's launch of NASA's Psyche mission from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Here's a closer look at some of today's important countdown and ascent milestones (all times are approximate): Time Events – 00:53:00 SpaceX Launch Director verifies go for propellant load – …
The Psyche spacecraft will launch weighing over 6,000 pounds, with its body, or bus, spanning 16.1 feet tall, including the 6.6-foot booms for two instruments, 7.1 feet wide, and 7.8 feet deep. With its two five-panel, cross-shaped solar panels fully deployed, Psyche would just about cover a tennis court at 81 feet by 24 feet. …
NASA's Psyche mission is a journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid – also named Psyche, after the goddess of the soul in ancient Greek mythology. The asteroid Psyche orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter and is unique in that it appears to be part or all of the iron-rich interior of a planetesimal, an …
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 …
