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Launch Date
10/13/2023
Launch Site
KSC LC39A
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Launch Vehicle
Falcon Heavy (Falcon Heavy Family)
NASA will use a Falcon Heavy to launch the Psyche mission in July 2022 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX on 2020-02-28 for the launch of the Psyche mission on a Falcon Heavy rocket.
NASA’s Psyche mission is scheduled to launch on a Falcon Heavy in the summer of 2022 and will host secondary payloads.
SpaceX has NASA contracts to launch the Psyche mission to the metallic asteroid Psyche in 2022 and to launch the first two elements of the lunar Gateway in 2024 on Falcon Heavy.
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.
NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission will not launch in 2022 because there was not enough time to complete testing of the spacecraft’s software before its 2022-10-11 launch window closes.
Maxar was selected in 2017 to provide the spacecraft platform for the Psyche mission under a firm-fixed-price contract.
NASA rescheduled the Psyche mission to launch in a window opening 2023-10-10 on a Falcon Heavy.
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.
NASA's Psyche mission is scheduled to launch on October 5, 2023, using a Falcon Heavy rocket.