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NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryPsyche Mission
10/13/2023
NASA rescheduled the Psyche launch for 2023-10-12 before postponing it another day because of poor weather within a three-week launch period that ran through 2023-10-25 with instantaneous daily launch windows.
The Falcon Heavy first-stage boosters supporting the Europa Clipper launch flew their sixth and final mission on 2024-10-14 after previously launching NASA’s Psyche, USSF-44, USSF-52, USSF-67, and Hughes JUPITER 3.
NASA paid $117,000,000 under a 2020 contract for the Falcon Heavy launch of the Psyche asteroid mission, which launched in 2023.
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.