As part of NASA’s Discovery Program, the mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid is well on its way to an August 2022 launch. With NASA’s Psyche mission now less than a year from launch, anticipation is building. By next spring, the fully assembled spacecraft will ship from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a launch period that opens Aug. 1, 2022. In early 2026, the Psyche spacecraft will arrive at its target, an asteroid of the same name in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Scientists believe asteroid Psyche, which is about 140 miles (226 kilometers) wide, is made largely of iron and nickel and could be the core of an early planet. The spacecraft will spend 21 months orbiting the asteroid and gathering science data with a magnetometer, a multispectral imager, and a gamma ray and neutron spectrometer. The information the instruments gather won’t just help scientists u...
2021 Space Apps Challenge Bulawayo Zimbabwe Space Apps is a platform where students and participants’ mentality in innovation, invention and scientific simulation will be developed. The platform gives participants the opportunity to bring projects to life for a wide range of applications. We are looking forward to seeing what innovative, creative ideas participants bring to the community this year but for the first time in Zimbabwe. Furthermore, participants will be required to think critically, develop their networks, compromise, provide perspective in scientific analysis and also improve skills in communication with international participants and executive boards from diverse academic backgrounds to discuss problems faced during space exploration and solve particular issues. Space Apps is the global community’s chance to experience, experiment, and explore solutions to our universe’s biggest challenges. As the countdown to our first ye...
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