April 21, 2020
Psyche’s first filters have arrived! The image shows an example of one of the glass color filters that will go into the rectangular holes in the filter wheel. This one is a green filter (wavelength...
April 20, 2020
A so-called “First Light” photo taken using the prototype Imager electronics and CCD but with no filters yet and only simple, non-flight-like optics. The Psyche electronics and CCD...
A photo of one of the Psyche Multispectral Imager flight filter wheels, recently completed by Malin Space Science Systems’ mechanisms subcontractor Motiv Space Systems. (For scale, the...
April 16, 2020
Psyche’s spacecraft body being tested at Maxar’s Palo Alto, California manufacturing facility.
A Maxar technician prepares to integrate part of Psyche’s electric propulsion subsystem.
October 16, 2018
This illustration depicts the 140-mile-wide (226-kilometer-wide) asteroid Psyche, which lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Psyche is the focal point of NASA’s mission...
February 5, 2018
January 10, 2018
This artist’s conception shows the Psyche spacecraft near the surface of the Psyche asteroid.
This artist’s conception shows a close-up of the surface of the Psyche asteroid.
December 3, 2017
Lindy Elkins-Tanton is a planetary scientist with expertise in planet formation and evolution. She is the Director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University in...
Dr. Jim Bell, Psyche Deputy Principal Investigator.
