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...
I would like to thank everyone who has visited this blog, everyone who participated in the 2021 NASA Space Apps Challenges hackathon, members of SEDS ZIM, ZINGSA administration and you for cooperating with the Guru's Lab in everything it has discovered and offered to the community. I as the NASA Space Apps Challenge local lead for 2021 I welcome every endeavor shown by you in making our Space Agenda a success in our own Zimbabwean nation and ofcourse to our entire nation. I wish you all a prosperous new 2022 and I am looking forward to work with you next year and also I welcome all new members who would like to join the Guru's Lab. Early 2022 every young scientist and science students or engineers will have the full opportunity to join the Lab and uphold its motto and innovative agenda. Thank you! Yours NASA Space Apps GO TEAM and ambassador in Zimbabwe (Dornald M Mhlanga) +263778862796 +263714790908 dornaldmmhlanga@gmail.com https://dornlab.blogspot.com/
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