NASA Asteroid Probe To Miss 2022 Launch Window

Psyche probe
Credit: Peter Rubin/ASU-JPL-SSL
CAPE CANAVERAL—NASA’s Psyche asteroid probe will miss its 2022 launch window due to pending verification of the spacecraft’s flight control software, NASA said June 24. Launch aboard aa SpaceX Falcon Heavy had been targeted between Sept. 20 and Oct. 11. Psyche had been scheduled to launch on Aug. 1...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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