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Psyche, Discovery Mission 14 - a visit to the metallic asteroid, 16 Psyche
HSchirmer
post Mar 5 2020, 02:28 PM
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QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Mar 5 2020, 05:41 AM) *
The same reason I expect the dramatic spiked craters and "rusty" portions in the artist concepts of these press releases are quite exaggerated. Doubtless eons of micrometeorid bombardment will have worn any feature like that down (like the lunar landscape, which is far less sharp then the Chesley Bonestell paintings).
It will still look really cool, of course! wink.gif


Don't forget, recent papers found metal whiskers on Itokowa samples, so we might have "bottle brush" features on a mostly metal asteroid...
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post Mar 5 2020, 03:14 PM
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I think the beauty of science is to verify our imaginations. Reality sometimes turns out to be more prosaic, and sometimes it exceeds our imagination.

We need missions like this very much - just because we can build a real picture of the Universe (Our World) and... imagine even more.
No one really knows what we'll see on Psyche!
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post May 21 2021, 09:27 AM
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Can someone give some insights into Psyche's magnetometer crisis that apparently happened late 2019? It seems around that time (quite late in the project, I think) UCLA was going to become unavailable to build the magnetometer for Psyche, which is now developed and built by the Technical University of Denmark. Probably, this move (never widely publicized, I believe) is somehow related to UCLA's late involvement in Europa Clipper, isn't it?
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post Oct 14 2021, 01:34 AM
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A new release of many (42!) images of the largest asteroids from SPHERE (Psyche included). Some interesting results regarding shape, rotation, and density.
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2114/
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post Oct 14 2021, 01:51 AM
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I've only skimmed this so far, but it's a goldmine of interesting results! What a revolutionary study.
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post Oct 14 2021, 08:02 PM
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QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Oct 14 2021, 03:34 AM) *
A new release of many (42!) images of the largest asteroids from SPHERE (Psyche included). Some interesting results regarding shape, rotation, and density.
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2114/


And here is a pdf with these results and pictures

And online
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post Nov 10 2021, 10:12 AM
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QUOTE (bobik @ May 21 2021, 10:27 AM) *
Can someone give some insights ... ?

Then it happened again. This time, IMAP's UCLA magnetometer was replaced by an European (Imperial College London) instrument. Is there any background information available?
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post May 25 2022, 12:20 AM
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Launch has been delayed:

https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/05/23/launc...late-september/
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post May 25 2022, 06:19 AM
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Hmm, not much information yet, but according to this timeline new flight software, FSW 5.0 was scheduled to be installed in the second half of May 2022.
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post Jun 24 2022, 06:26 PM
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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-ann...steroid-mission

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NASA announced Friday the Psyche asteroid mission, the agency’s first mission designed to study a metal-rich asteroid, will not make its planned 2022 launch attempt.

Due to the late delivery of the spacecraft’s flight software and testing equipment, NASA does not have sufficient time to complete the testing needed ahead of its remaining launch period this year, which ends on Oct. 11. The mission team needs more time to ensure that the software will function properly in flight...

“NASA takes the cost and schedule commitments of its projects and programs very seriously,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “We are exploring options for the mission in the context of the Discovery Program, and a decision on the path forward will be made in the coming months.”



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post Jun 24 2022, 08:42 PM
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Psyche will still get to Psyche, just a bit later.
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post Jun 25 2022, 04:07 AM
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QUOTE (tolis @ Jun 24 2022, 01:42 PM) *
Psyche will still get to Psyche, just a bit later.

That is true, but the delay means that a large mission team needs to be funded for a year or two longer. That funding will come from somewhere within the planetary budget. As the quote above (“We are exploring options for the mission in the context of the Discovery Program, and a decision on the path forward will be made in the coming months.”), NASA is still evaluating those impacts. That quote also seems to leave open the option for not flying the Psyche mission.


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post Jun 25 2022, 04:50 AM
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QUOTE (vjkane @ Jun 24 2022, 09:07 PM) *
That is true, but the delay means that a large mission team needs to be funded for a year or two longer. That funding will come from somewhere within the planetary budget. As the quote above (“We are exploring options for the mission in the context of the Discovery Program, and a decision on the path forward will be made in the coming months.”), NASA is still evaluating those impacts. That quote also seems to leave open the option for not flying the Psyche mission.

From the press release: "The mission’s 2022 launch period, which ran from Aug. 1 through Oct. 11, would have allowed the spacecraft to arrive at the asteroid Psyche in 2026. There are possible launch periods in both 2023 and 2024, but the relative orbital positions of Psyche and Earth mean the spacecraft would not arrive at the asteroid until 2029 and 2030, respectively. The exact dates of these potential launch periods are yet to be determined."


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post Oct 28 2022, 09:47 PM
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October 10, 2023 launch, for August 2029 arrival. So overall a 3 year delay. (not as bad as Galileo after Challenger, but something like Rosetta).

Review board is finishing its report on the cause of the delay too.

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NASA continues to assess options for its Janus mission exploring twin binary asteroid systems, which was originally scheduled to launch on the same SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket as Psyche. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration, testing high-data-rate laser communications, is integrated into the Psyche spacecraft and will continue as planned on the new launch date.
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post Oct 29 2022, 12:19 PM
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QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Oct 28 2022, 11:47 PM) *
October 10, 2023 launch, for August 2029 arrival. So overall a 3 year delay. (not as bad as Galileo after Challenger, but something like Rosetta).

Review board is finishing its report on the cause of the delay too.

Such information always makes me realize how short human life is, and being interested in space exploration requires a lot of PATIENCE.
And still in the last century, it seemed that now everything was going to happen very quickly... However, spacetime is spacetime - the laws of physics cannot be jumped (like in the movies) wink.gif
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