NASA to launch mission to metal asteroid, Psyche, at a cost of 3-ton spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center in Florida
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NASA is about to launch a mission of pure discovery to a metal asteroid
A roughly 3-ton spacecraft is ready for launch Friday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin a six-year trip to an enigma in the asteroid belt, an unusual metallic world the size of Massachusetts that could hold clues about the formation of Earth and other rocky planets. This mission, named Psyche, will survey its namesake asteroid for at least 26 months, moving to different altitudes to map the metal world with three science instruments. No one knows what the spacecraft will find when it reaches the asteroid Psyche. The leading hypothesis among Psyche's science team is that the asteroid is likely a leftover remnant from the early history of the Solar System 4.5 billion years ago.
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