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Psyche Spacecraft Processing
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Psyche Spacecraft Processing

NASA / KSC · 2022-12-08 · photograph (digital archive)

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Prelaunch processing of NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is underway inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 8, 2022. Psyche will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy. Launch is targeted for no earlier than Oct. 10, 2023. The spacecraft will use solar-electric propulsion to travel approximately 1.5 billion miles to rendezvous with its namesake asteroid in 2026.

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Credit linePsyche Spacecraft Processing. NASA/KSC, 2022-12-08. Public domain. ID: KSC-20221208-PH-JBS01_0047.

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