The Psyche spacecraft during a media visit to the Astrotech facility outside Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
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The launch of NASA’s Psyche mission to explore a main-belt metal asteroid has been delayed from Oct. 5 to Oct. 12 to complete a verification of the spacecraft’s cold nitrogen gas thruster performance. The thrusters provide pointing for science operations, solar power generation, thermal control and...
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