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NASA to launch mission to metal asteroid
NASA has announced plans to launch its mission to a unique metal asteroid a year ahead of the original schedule.Moving up the launch schedule and a revised trajectory will enable the probe to explore Psyche, an asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, four years earlier than the original timeline, NASA said.
Washington: NASA has announced plans to launch its mission to a unique metal asteroid a year ahead of the original schedule.Moving up the launch schedule and a revised trajectory will enable the probe to explore Psyche, an asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, four years earlier than the original timeline, NASA said.
"Psyche, NASA's Discovery Mission to a unique metal asteroid, has been moved up one year with launch in the summer of 2022, and with a planned arrival at the main belt asteroid in 2026 -- four years earlier than the original timeline," the US space agency said in a statement on Wednesday.
"We challenged the mission design team to explore if an earlier launch date could provide a more efficient trajectory to the asteroid Psyche, and they came through in a big way," said Jim Green, Director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
"This will enable us to fulfil our science objectives sooner and at a reduced cost," Green said.Psyche is made almost entirely of nickel-iron metal. As such, it offers a unique look into the violent collisions that created Earth and the terrestrial planets.
