NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Launches On A Mission Of Firsts

Irene Klotz October 25, 2023
Psyche asteroid

The mission will search for evidence that the asteroid once had a magnetic field.

Credit: Peter Rubin/Arizona State University Concept
NASA and other space agencies have sent satellites to explore rock, ice and gas worlds, from Mercury to the Kuiper Belt. With the launch of the Psyche spacecraft, scientists are eager for their first close-up look at a planetary body made mostly of metal. Psyche, which lifted off onboard a SpaceX...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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