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Get a daily digest of the latest news in tech, science, and technology, delivered right to your mailbox. Subscribe now.NASA's $1.2 billion Psyche mission lifted off aboard Falcon Heavy at Pad 39A at 10:19 a.m. EDT from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
It will travel approximately 2.2 billion miles to investigate the asteroid 16 Psyche, which scientists have estimated could contain more than the entire global economy's worth of heavy metals. The mission will also investigate whether 16 Psyche is a "partial core of a shattered planetesimal — a small world the size of a city or small country that is the first building block of a planet," according to NASA'sNASA's Psyche mission, the space agency's first mission to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, will take six years to reach its target asteroid.
Once there, it will image 16 Psyche, which is a 173-mile-wide asteroid that lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.Once it arrives at the massive space rock in 2029, the Psyche spacecraft will orbit its target for at least 26 months. Mission scientists expect to collect enough data for future generations of scientists to pour over for years.Roughly seven minutes after launch, Falcon Heavy's two side boosters flew back down to Earth.
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Watch SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launch NASA's Psyche asteroid mission todayMichael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, 'Out There,' was published on Nov. 13, 2018.
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SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket poised to launch Psyche metal asteroid mission (photos)Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, 'Out There,' was published on Nov. 13, 2018.
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Watch Live as SpaceX Launches NASA's $1 Billion Psyche Mission to a Metal WorldThe Psyche spacecraft is set for launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy on Thursday at 10:16 a.m. ET, weather permitting.
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Watch SpaceX launch NASA’s historic Psyche missionNASA and SpaceX will soon launch the Psyche mission, which will travel to the asteroid Psyche and orbit the metal world.
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NASA and SpaceX targeting Oct. 13 to launch mission to metallic asteroid PsycheNASA is preparing to launch another asteroid mission next week called Psyche.
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