Tag: JPL

“Navigation Data Types Triptych”, digital media, by Ben Conway

February 3, 2021 / Drew Ryan Jones

Navigating Psyche

I’m Drew Ryan Jones, a member of the mission design and navigation (MDNAV) team tasked with charting and navigating a course to the asteroid (16) Psyche. A general description of the Psyche...

July 7, 2020 / NASA

Building NASA’s Psyche: Design Done, Now Full Speed Ahead on Hardware

The mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid is pivoting from planning the details to building real pieces of the spacecraft puzzle. Psyche, the NASA mission to explore a metal-rock asteroid...