Psyche mission will launch as NASA’s first trip to a metal world

NASA will launch a spacecraft to study the metal asteroid Psyche to determine whether it’s the exposed core of an early planetary building block.

’s first mission to a mysterious world made largely of metal, rather than rock or ice, is about to launch. The Psyche mission is expected to lift off at 10:19 a.m. ET Friday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from

science missions slated to launch aboard the Falcon Heavy rocket. ’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. “We’re launching a mission to an object that humankind has never before studied up close,” said Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Psyche principal investigator and foundation and regents professor at Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration. “This will be our first time visiting a world that has a metal surface.

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