NASA’s Psyche mission carried an imager, magnetometers, and a gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer during the Mars flyby.
The Psyche mission is part of NASA’s Discovery Program.
NASA’s Psyche mission is traveling to the asteroid Psyche in the belt between Mars and Jupiter.
NASA intends the Psyche mission to study the metallic asteroid Psyche to better understand how Earth formed.
NASA’s Psyche mission uses solar-powered electric thrusters.
B1075-22 and B1072-2 were built as side boosters for the Psyche mission.
B1072 was kept in storage for GOES-U after the Psyche mission was delayed.
B1075 was converted to Falcon 9 after the Psyche mission was delayed.
NASA delayed the VERITAS mission in 2023 to no earlier than 2031, a three-year slip tied to workforce imbalance problems at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory identified during development of the Psyche mission.
The Psyche mission faced a delay of more than a year due to software testing problems.
The pair of Falcon Heavy side boosters used on USSF-52 completed their fifth launch and landing together after previously supporting USSF-44, USSF-67, Hughes JUPTER 3, and NASA’s Psyche mission.
The Falcons’ side boosters that will fly on USSF-52 previously supported the USSF-44, USSF-67, Hughes JUPTER 3, and NASA’s Psyche mission.
The USSF-52 mission will mark the fifth launch and landing of these Falcon Heavy side boosters, which previously supported USSF-44, USSF-67, Hughes JUPTER 3, and NASA's Psyche mission.
NASA delayed the VERITAS mission by three years to no earlier than 2031 following a review into delays of the Psyche mission that found institutional problems at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Maxar was selected to provide the spacecraft platform for the Psyche mission under a firm-fixed-price contract.
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched NASA’s Psyche mission to an interplanetary transfer orbit from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 2023-10-13, at 10:19 a.m. ET.
The Psyche mission’s cost increased by 20% from $1,000,000,000 to $1,200,000,000 due to the 14-month launch delay.
Maxar Space Systems was selected under a firm-fixed-price contract to provide the spacecraft platform for the Psyche mission.
A NASA shutdown plan would have limited the agency primarily to operations of the International Space Station and other ongoing missions and to preparations for the 2023-10-12 Psyche mission launch.
The delay increased the Psyche mission cost from just under $1,000,000,000 to $1,200,000,000.