Nasa Psyche Spacecraft

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  NASA's Psyche Spacecraft Captures Rare Crescent Image Of Mars During Flyby

  According to mission scientists, the spacecraft is approaching Mars from a high phase angle.

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  NASA’s Psyche Mission Encounters Pressure Drop, Backup Systems on Standby

  NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, en route to a metal-rich asteroid, paused its thrusters after detecting a drop in xenon gas pressure. Engineers are investigating the issue while keeping the mission on track. Psyche will fly by Mars in 2026 before entering asteroid orbit in 2029.

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  Earth Receives Laser Message From 140 Million Miles Away In Deep Space

  Earth has received a mysterious signal from deep space, American space agency NASA has revealed. The signal, which originated approximately 140 million miles away.

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  Earth Receives First Laser Message From 16 Million Km From Deep Space

  The experiment was made possible by the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) tool which was travelling onboard NASA's Psyche spacecraft.

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  NASA's Psyche Mission: A 3.6 Billion km 'Journey To Centre Of The Earth'

  Last week NASA launched a spacecraft to rendezvous with Psyche. The mission will take a six-year, 3.6 billion kilometre journey to gather clues.

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  NASA Launches Mission To Explore Metal-Rich Asteroid Psyche

  NASA on Friday launched a spacecraft from Florida on its way to Psyche, the largest of the several metal-rich asteroids known in our solar system and a body thought to be the remnant core of an ancient protoplanet.

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  NASA to Launch Mission To Asteroid Worth More Than All The Gold On Earth

  The Psyche spacecraft is targeted to travel to the asteroid using solar-electric (low-thrust) propulsion, following a Mars flyby and gravity assist.