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The switch fixed a solar electric propulsion problem first detected in April - where engineers noticed a pressure drop in the ...
Die NASA-Sonde Psyche ist unterwegs zum gleichnamigen Asteroiden. Sie könnte wertvolle Einblicke in die Frühgeschichte ...
On Episode 163 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss Starship's recent test flight with reporter Mike Wall.
The spacecraft is en route to a metal-rich asteroid. Hopefully, its backup propellant line can get it there by August 2029.
Not long ago, the idea of mining in space sounded like something out of a sci-fi novel. But today, it’s a field that ...
NASA has decided to switch to a backup propellant line on its Psyche asteroid mission to allow the spacecraft to resume use ...
Vesta is merely one asteroid that is the product of such an impact. Other asteroids in the solar system could also be the remains of larger, disintegrated planets. This could be supported by future ...
On Tuesday (April 29), NASA announced that its Psyche probe has suffered a setback concerning its propulsion system while nearly 150 million miles (238 million kilometers) from our planet. The boxy, ...
The asteroid, named 16 Psyche, is located in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. It is thought to be chock-full of valuable metals like gold, platinum and cobalt and therefore possibly ...
Hydrated metals have been detected on the surface of the asteroid Psyche. The observations, made with JWST, raise some big questions for the mission named after the asteroid, which hopefully will ...
Scientists have speculated that Psyche is the remnant of a planetesimal, the leftover metallic core of a failed planet. Further observations of the asteroid could hold clues to Psyche's chemical ...
Hydrated minerals have paradoxically been found by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on the surface of 16 Psyche, a metallic asteroid that's the target of a NASA mission that launched in ...