A Falcon Heavy rocket has an instantaneous launch window at 10:16 a.m. Eastern on 2023-10-12 from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A for the Psyche mission.
NASA's Psyche mission is at risk due to potential government shutdowns affecting operations.
NASA's Psyche mission is scheduled to launch on October 5, 2023, using a Falcon Heavy rocket.
NASA's Psyche mission is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center during a launch period that opens 2023-10-05 and runs through 2023-10-25.
The launch period for the Psyche mission opens on 2023-10-05.
The Psyche mission’s launch was rescheduled from August 2022 to October 2023, which would not allow Janus to reach its original targets.
The cost of the Psyche mission, projected at just under $1,000,000,000 at its 2019 confirmation, had grown to nearly $1,130,000,000 as of January 2023.
NASA and JPL convened an independent review board after the Psyche mission team requested to delay the spacecraft’s August 2022 launch.
NASA’s Psyche mission has a narrow launch window in October 2024 to reach its asteroid destination.
Janus, a SIMPLEx mission that was to ride with Psyche, is now in limbo after the Psyche mission was delayed to October 2023.
NASA announced in November 2022 that it was delaying the VERITAS mission by at least three years in response to an independent review into problems with the Psyche mission.
The Psyche mission was rescheduled for launch in October 2023 but that opportunity did not provide Janus with trajectories to fly by the binary asteroids of interest.
The Psyche mission launch was delayed to October 2023, creating an incompatible trajectory for Janus.
NASA rescheduled the Psyche mission to launch in a window opening 2023-10-10 on a Falcon Heavy.
Maxar built the spacecraft bus for the Psyche mission.
NASA selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy as the launch vehicle for the Psyche mission in 2020.
A Government Accountability Office report a year ago stated the Psyche mission’s estimated cost had declined to $957.6 million, reflecting the cost of the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle selected in 2020.
At its Key Decision Point C review in 2019, NASA estimated a total lifecycle cost of $996,400,000 for the Psyche mission.
The NASA Psyche mission is expected to launch in August 2022 to explore an asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter.
Maxar was selected in 2017 to provide the spacecraft platform for the Psyche mission under a firm-fixed-price contract.