Psyche!
NASA has announced that its Psyche mission—the agency’s first attempt to study a metal-rich asteroid—will not launch in 2022. The agency states the delay is attributable to the late delivery of guidance, navigation, and flight software, as well as mission-critical test equipment. In addition to controlling the inflight orientation of the spacecraft, the tardy software was to have provided trajectory information to Psyche’s solar electric propulsion system, which would have begun operating seventy-days post-launch.
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