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The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an ...
NASA’s Psyche mission, which aims to explore the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, has hit a snag on its journey. As reported in a ...
There's an issue with the fuel line that feeds the Psyche asteroid probe's thrusters with xenon gas. But we needn't worry yet ...
NASA's Psyche spacecraft, located nearly 150 million miles from Earth on the way to an unexplored metal asteroid, has stopped ...
NASA's Psyche mission to visit a gargantuan asteroid that could be worth more than the entire world economy has hit a snag.
Psyche has an unusual propulsion system which uses ionized xenon and which gives off a blue glow. These thrusters use tiny amounts of xenon and expel charged atoms to move forwards. While electric ...
This comes after Nicola Fox of NASA's science mission directorate said: "Psyche is by far the largest [asteroid], and that's ...
NASA is investigating a problem with the electric propulsion system on its Psyche asteroid spacecraft, but an agency official ...
NASA’s Psyche mission to a $10,000 quadrillion metal asteroid hit a snag with thrust loss, but backup systems offer hope to ...
In a blog post published last week, NASA revealed that the mission team noted a drop in fuel pressure of Psyche's propulsion ...
The boxy, solar-winged craft is headed to the peculiar object for which it is named: 16 Psyche, an asteroid that appears to have an unusually high metal content. The complication surrounds a ...