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NASA's Psyche Is About to Use Mars as a Slingshot to a Rare Metal Asteroid

Launched in 2023, the spacecraft is midway through its six-year round-trip journey to Psyche in the outer fringes of the ...

Tracy Drain, NASA engineer and National Geographic Explorer, to speak in San Diego

A NASA aerospace engineer and National Geographic Explorer is set to make an appearance in San Diego and discuss space ...

Time-lapse of the outer solar system planets spinning view from the Hubble Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

NASA's Psyche probe nears Mars for gravity boost en route to metal-rich asteroid

NASA's Psyche probe was headed for a close encounter with Mars on Friday and a ​planned gravity boost to set the spacecraft ...
Space.com

No, this isn't a solar eclipse. It's an image of Mars, captured by NASA's asteroid-bound Psyche probe

The image was captured on May 14 as the asteroid-bound spacecraft approaches Mars could be mistaken for an eclipse.
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

NASA spacecraft to swing past Mars as it chases rare metal asteroid

Named Psyche like the asteroid it’s after, the robotic explorer will slingshot past the red planet at 12,333 mph (19,848 kph) ...

La nave Psyche de la NASA sobrevuela Marte rumbo a un raro asteroide metálico

Una nave espacial de la NASA que persigue un raro asteroide metálico pasará cerca de Marte esta semana para recibir un impulso gravitacional, tomando miles de fotografías como práctica para el ...
Tech Times

NASA’s Psyche Completes Mars Gravity Assist at 12,333 mph, Bound for Metal Asteroid in 2029

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft swept within 2,800 miles of Mars on Friday, May 15, using the planet’s gravitational pull to ...

NASA spacecraft to fly past Mars this week, on voyage to rare metal asteroid

Psyche will travel quite close to Mars, coming within just 2,800 miles of the red planet's surface at its nearest point, according to NASA. Slingshotting past at about 12,333 miles per hour, the ...