NASA Teases ‘Psyche,’ A Robot To Explore An Asteroid Worth More Than Our Global Economy - Forbes

Located in the Solar System’s main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, metal-rich 16 Psyche is thought to be the exposed metallic iron, nickel and gold core of a protoplanet.

The Psyche mission is part of NASA’s Discovery Program of low-cost robotic space missions.

This new artist's concept depicts NASA's Psyche spacecraft.

[+] NASA's Psyche spacecraft at Maxar Technologies in Palo Alto, California.

An electric Hall thruster identical to those that will propel NASA's Psyche spacecraft on its ...

The mission will also test NASA’s new laser communications technology called Deep Space Optical Communications

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