NASA’s Psyche mission will launch on Thursday (12). You can follow it all on the space agency’s YouTube broadcast or on NASA TV
The Psyche mission, from NASAwill be launched this Thursday (12) with a Falcon Heavy rocket, from SpaceX. It was designed to send a probe to the asteroid 16 Psyche, which is present on the planet Asteroid belt. The spacecraft is expected to reach it in 2029.
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After launch, the Psyche probe will begin a journey of more than three billion kilometers. When you reach the asteroid Psyche (as it is called in Portuguese), will help scientists study this metallic object, intriguing and very different from space rocks analyzed in other missions.
The asteroid Psyche was discovered in 1852 and appears to be the exposed core of a planetesimal, a small object capable of accumulating mass until it becomes a planet. However, collisions with other bodies in the Solar System may have prevented it from continuing this process.
Therefore, studying it closely can help scientists better understand these collisions and analyze the iron core of rocky planets. Furthermore, the data could also reveal whether Psyche is actually the core of a “failed” planet – that possibility was called into question in a study published in 2021, in which the authors suggested that perhaps not so different from the asteroid Bennuwhich is formed by a pile of rocky debris.
To discover more about Psyche’s origins, the probe must reach its goal. To do this, it will perform a gravitational assist maneuver on Mars in 2026 and then continue its journey to the asteroid. When it reaches it at the end of the decade, it will orbit around it at a distance of 700 km, getting closer little by little throughout the mission.
It will also need to be positioned correctly for its scientific instruments to come into play for analysis. Your ally in this task will be your electric propulsion system, which transforms sunlight into magnetic and electric fields to accelerate the Earth’s atoms. propellant and therefore generate propulsion.
How to watch the launch of Psyche online
The launch of the Psyche mission is scheduled for Kennedy Space Centerin Florida, at 11:16 a.m. Brasilia time.
You can follow the launch events starting from 10.30am on air on NASA to the Youtube or inside NASATVon the space agency’s website.
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