Friday, June 24, 2022

[NASA HQ News] NASA to Discuss Psyche Asteroid Mission

  June 24, 2022 
MEDIA ADVISORY M22-091
NASA to Discuss Psyche Asteroid Mission
This artist's concept, updated as of June 2020, depicts NASA's Psyche spacecraft. The Psyche mission will explore a metal-rich asteroid of the same name that lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
This artist's concept, updated as of June 2020, depicts NASA's Psyche spacecraft. The Psyche mission will explore a metal-rich asteroid of the same name that lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Friday to provide an update on the agency's mission to study the Pysche asteroid. Audio of the briefing will livestream on the agency's website.  

Teleconference participants include:

  • Lori Glaze, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington
  • Laurie Leshin, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California
  • Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Psyche mission principal investigator, Arizona State University

Media interested in participating in the call should send their full name, media affiliation, email address, and phone number by 1 p.m. ET today to Katherine Rohloff  at: katherine.a.rohloff@nasa.gov. NASA's media accreditation policy is online.

For more information about NASA's Psyche mission, visit:

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/psyche/in-depth/

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