October 6, 2024

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NASA’s Mission to That $10,000 Quadrillion Asteroid Is Officially Happening This Fall

Yahoo News – Robb Report

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After suffering a false start last year, NASA will finally begin its voyage to asteroid 16 Psyche later this year.

The Psyche mission was initially scheduled for September 2022 but was delayed due to “development problems.” Shortly after, an independently appointed review board made extensive recommendations to NASA to get the Psyche spacecraft en route to the rare asteroid. The space agency, its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have reportedly addressed all the recommendations and made outstanding progress on the project, according to a statement shared on Monday.

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