Laprensa Latina 9/6/2023
Miami (USA), Sep 6 (EFE).- NASA’s Psyche mission will launch on October 5 from Cape Canaveral, Florida (USA), on its way to the largest metallic asteroid in the solar system, in what space agency scientists on Wednesday called a historic journey.
It is “a mission of firsts, the first journey ever to a metallic asteroid that could reveal clues about planetary cores and how planets form and evolve in the early stages of our solar system,” Laurie Leshin, director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), said today in a teleconference.
According to her remarks, it is also the “first-ever deep space optical high bandwidth communications which have a potential to revolutionize future science,” Leshin added.
Psyche’s 3.6 billion-kilometer journey to the asteroid of the same name will take six years after its launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, and it will orbit this body in deep space from 2026 to 2031.
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