NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is made available to media for viewing inside a cleanroom at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 11, 2023. Psyche will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy to explore a metal-rich asteroid. Launch is targeted for Oct. 5, 2023. Riding with Psyche is a pioneering technology demonstration, NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment.
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