Psyche Mission

Psyche is the name of an asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter and the name of a NASA space mission to visit that asteroid.

• NASA has cancelled its planned 2022 launch attempt of the Psyche asteroid mission.
• Key objectives of the mission are to understand how planets and other bodies are separated into layers such as cores, mantles, and crusts; to examine the asteroid made of metal; and to explore early eras of the solar system.
• Psyche is the first asteroid known to the world likely made largely of metal rather than rock or ....