Elon Musk's SpaceX Sucessfuly LAUNCHED NASAs Psyche Mission!
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Sucessfuly LAUNCHED NASAs Psyche Mission!
In an effort to determine whether the asteroid is the exposed core of an early planetary construction piece from the beginning of the solar system, NASA has launched its first mission to a strange world comprised entirely of metal.
At 10:19 a.m. ET on Friday, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the Psyche mission launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The first of many prospective NASA science missions scheduled to fly on the Falcon Heavy rocket is Psyche.
This marks the beginning of the SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy era. The Falcon Heavy rocket from SpaceX is about to take over as NASA’s main workhorse. And for today’s episode, we’ll find out everything about this launch and NASAs Pasyche mission. So, stay tuned!
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Psyche is the fourteenth mission in the NASA Discovery Program, which supports solar system exploration missions that are less expensive than those in the New Frontier and Flagship programs and that concentrate on attaining a single scientific goal as opposed to a more comprehensive objective or research.
NASA received the mission objectives and plans for Psyche in February 2015. Psyche received an additional $3 million for idea development later that year, in September, after being chosen as one of five finalists. Finally, on January 4, 2017, NASA chose the Psyche mission and the Lucy mission as the 14th and 13th Discovery missions for the organization.
The launch of Psyche is planned for July 2022, according to an announcement made in May 2017 by the Psyche teams. The mission’s launch date was originally scheduled for 2023, but it was changed to July 2022 to aim for a more effective launch and cruise trajectory. NASA declared in August 2020 that SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket would be used to launch the mission.
As the first launch window for Psyche in July 2022 drew near, NASA and the Psyche team highlighted that the delayed delivery of flight software, testing gear, and other necessary spacecraft components did not provide enough time for testing to be fully finished and the spacecraft to be shipped. Due to this, the teams decided to postpone the launch past the launch window in July 2022 and instead chose to launch the spacecraft in either 2023 or 2024. The spacecraft would reach the asteroid in August 2029 if NASA and the Psyche teams were successful in launching it during the 2023 launch window, which opened in October 2023.
In the end, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of NASA set the launch date for October 5, 2023 on April 18, 2023. After that, Psyche was delivered to the Cape, where it was made ready to be integrated with its Falcon Heavy rocket. But a problem with the cold gas thrusters on board the spacecraft caused the launch to be postponed by a week, with a new launch date of October 12. The launch was then postponed by one day to October 13 as a result of unfavorable weather on October 12, which was then scrubbed.
The primary science mission for the Psyche spacecraft will last 21 months and will be carried out at Psyche following a nearly six-year coast phase across the solar system. In order to help the spacecraft’s velocity and trajectory reach 16 Psyche during the coast phase, Psyche will conduct a gravity assist maneuver at Mars.
The Space Systems Loral 1300 platform serves as Psyche’s spacecraft bus, and JPL is in charge of building and integrating all of the flight software, telecom subsystems, and command and data handling systems. Four SPT-140 Hall-effect ion thrusters will be used by the spacecraft to provide thrust, using the electricity generated by the solar panels on the craft.
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