[NASA HQ News] NASA Invites Media to Psyche Launch, Mission will Study an Asteroid

	August 15, 2023  RELEASE 23-088 NASA Invites Media to Psyche Launch, Mission will Study an Asteroid ksc-20230720-ph-ilw01_0023orig.jpg Credits: NASA Media accreditation is now open for the upcoming launch of NASA's Psyche spacecraft, for a mission to a unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. NASA and SpaceX are targeting 10:38 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 5, for launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Media accreditation deadlines for the Psyche launch are as follows: U.S. media and U.S. citizens representing international media must apply by 5 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Sept. 12. International media without U.S. citizenship must apply by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 29. Media accreditation requests should be submitted online at: https://media.ksc.nasa.gov A copy of NASA's media accreditation policy is available online. For questions about accreditation, please email: ksc-media-accreditat@mail.nasa.gov. For other mission questions, please contact NASA Kennedy's newsroom: 321-867-2468. The asteroid Psyche may be part of a core of a planetesimal, a building block of an early planet. Deep within rocky, terrestrial planets – including Earth – scientists infer the presence of metallic cores, but these lie unreachably far below the planets' rocky mantles and crusts. Psyche will offer a unique window into the process that created terrestrial planets. NASA will post updates on launch preparations to prepare the spacecraft for its 2.5-billion-mile (4-billion-kilometer) journey on the Psyche blog. Riding with Psyche is a pioneering technology demonstration, called NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment, which will be NASA's furthest-ever test of high-bandwidth optical communications. Para obtener información sobre cobertura en español en el Centro Espacial Kennedy o si desea solicitar entrevistas en español, comuníquese con Antonia Jaramillo at: antonia.jaramillobotero@nasa.gov, 321-501-8425, o Messod Bendayan, 256-930-1371. For more information about Psyche and DSOC, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/psyche -end-
	Press Contacts Alise Fisher / Erin Morton Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2546 / 202-805-9393 alise.m.fisher@nasa.gov / erin.morton@nasa.gov Leejay Lockhart / Laura Aguiar Kennedy Space Center, Florida 321-867-2468 leejay.lockhart@nasa.gov / laura.aguiar@nasa.gov
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