The exploratory mission missed its initial launch window in 2022 due to a software glitch, in addition to institutional issues at NASA's JPL.
“We’re really not afraid at NASA to take an unflinching view on what we do,” Nicola Fox, associate administrator for Science Mission Directorate at NASA, told reporters during a press briefing on Monday. “We’re really happy to see that the independent review board not only validated the decision to move forward with the mission, but also has said that the work done to address all of their recommendations has totally exceeded their already high expectations.
Things were looking a little rough at JPL. NASA was unable to resolve Psyche’s flight software glitches, which controls its orientation and trajectory, as well as its ability to send and receive data to Earth, before the launch window closed on October 11, 2022.
“This is certainly a really important step and one of the things that we had identified as a key criterion for being able to restart work on VERITAS,” Lori Glaze, division director for Planetary Sciences, said during Monday’s briefing. “We’re working through the budget process right now...we are looking at what the landscape looks like for the restart for VERITAS.
The Psyche spacecraft will orbit around its target, armed with a multispectral imager, a gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer, a magnetometer, and a radio instrument to map the asteroid,. Psyche is a 140-mile-wide asteroid that orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. Scientists believe Psyche might be the stripped down core of a shattered planetesimal, one of the building blocks that form a planet.
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