NASA's Psyche Gets Huge Solar Arrays for 1.5-Billion-Mile Journey to Metal-Rich Asteroid - SciTechDaily

With its solar arrays installed, the spacecraft is close to its final configuration ahead of a planned August launch. NASA’s Psyche mission is almost ready for its moment in the Sun – a 1.5-billion-mile (2.4-billion-kilometer) solar-powered journey to a myste…

An illustration of NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, which is targeted to launch to the main asteroid belt in August 2022 to investigate the metal-rich asteroid Psyche. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU With its… [+5087 chars]

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