August 15, 2023Â RELEASE 23-088 NASA Invites Media to Psyche Launch, Mission will Study an Asteroid
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Media accreditation is now open for the upcoming launch of NASAâs Psyche spacecraft, for a mission to a unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. NASA and SpaceX are targeting 10:38 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 5, for launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agencyâs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Media accreditation deadlines for the Psyche launch are as follows: - U.S. media and U.S. citizens representing international media must apply by 5 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Sept. 12.
- International media without U.S. citizenship must apply by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 29.
Media accreditation requests should be submitted online at: https://media.ksc.nasa.gov A copy of NASAâs media accreditation policy is available online. For questions about accreditation, please email: ksc-media-accreditat@mail.nasa.gov. For other mission questions, please contact NASA Kennedyâs newsroom: 321-867-2468. The asteroid Psyche may be part of a core of a planetesimal, a building block of an early planet. Deep within rocky, terrestrial planets â including Earth â scientists infer the presence of metallic cores, but these lie unreachably far below the planets' rocky mantles and crusts. Psyche will offer a unique window into the process that created terrestrial planets. NASA will post updates on launch preparations to prepare the spacecraft for its 2.5-billion-mile (4-billion-kilometer) journey on the Psyche blog. Riding with Psyche is a pioneering technology demonstration, called NASAâs Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment, which will be NASAâs furthest-ever test of high-bandwidth optical communications. Para obtener información sobre cobertura en español en el Centro Espacial Kennedy o si desea solicitar entrevistas en español, comunÃquese con Antonia Jaramillo at: antonia.jaramillobotero@nasa.gov, 321-501-8425, o Messod Bendayan, 256-930-1371. For more information about Psyche and DSOC, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/psyche -end- |