Psyche Stories
Editor’s note, Dec. 11, 2025: This story was updated to include an additional partner’s research and related release. Astronomers have been poring over a flood of data from NASA satellites and other facilities as they try to work out what…
This article was updated to include the full range of dates from the SOHO image. Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA is in the midst of an unprecedented solar system-wide observation campaign, turning its spacecraft and space telescopes to…
This timelapse video shows the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Table Mountain Facility transmitting its 3-kilowatt laser beacon to the agency's DSOC experiment aboard NASA's Psyche mission on June 2, 2025.
In this infrared photograph, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at JPL's Table Mountain Facility beams its laser beacon to the DSOC flight laser transceiver aboard NASA's Psyche spacecraft.
In this infrared photograph, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at NASA JPL's Table Mountain Facility, beams its laser beacon to the DSOC flight laser transceiver aboard NASA's Psyche spacecraft.
The project has exceeded all of its technical goals after two years, setting up the foundations of high-speed communications for NASA’s future human missions to Mars. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology successfully showed that data encoded in lasers could…
