Tag: Science

This image shows a table that outlines five cases where two measurements are not sufficient to conclude whether or not Psyche is a core, and what further measurement is needed.

July 11, 2018 / Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Planning to measure an unknown asteroid

Instrument robustness when you don’t know what you’re going to see We’ve got a leading hypothesis about the asteroid (16) Psyche: it is the metal core of a tiny planet that had its rocky...
Three different psyche logos.

April 19, 2018 / Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Adventures in AcronymLand

In honor of Psyche mission’s PMSR, our first big review, I post here all the year’s tweets on NASA acronyms.

This is a photograph of members of the Psyche team standing in front of a 3D mid size Psyche model located within the Maxar (formerly SSL) facility.

October 12, 2017 / Tess Calvert

Project Management — Start with the Basics

I’ve been a part of projects where, when things went sideways, we would calm everyone by saying “It’s going to be fine! It’s not rocket science!” This time, IT IS ROCKET SCIENCE!

This image shows the LunaH-Map team standing with a large poster of the LunaH-Map logo.

September 18, 2017 / Craig Hardgrove

Team Building: Big and Small

True to form, the day of selection for LunaH-Map was unlike most planetary missions that have come before.

At the top of the image it says "Psyche - Journey to a Metal World" and below are two planets colliding.

August 13, 2017 / Lindy Elkins-Tanton

The birth of a space mission

This July we were back in our little house up in the hills of Massachusetts, and I saw still sitting next to the phone the giant-size Post-It…