Since its arrival on April 29, the psyche spacecraft has been moved to the payload service facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where technicians take it out of the protective transport container and rotate it to the vertical state, and then start making final preparations for the launch of the spacecraft.
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In the coming months, the staff will carry out a series of work, including reinstalling solar panels, re integrating radios, testing telecommunications systems, loading propellant, and encapsulating the spacecraft in the payload fairing before it leaves the facility and moves to the launch pad.
The psyche spacecraft passed through the country from the clean room of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to the load maintenance facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida
The psyche spacecraft will explore a metal rich asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, which is believed to be mainly composed of nickel and iron. The goal of this mission is to launch the SpaceX Falcon heavy rocket from Kennedy's 39A launch site on August 1, 2022. After its arrival in 2026, the spacecraft will spend 21 months orbiting its namesake asteroid, mapping and collecting data, which may provide insights into how planets with metal cores, including the earth, form.