NASA’s experimental laser communication system, riding along with the Psyche spacecraft, has hit another milestone. The system was recently used to transmit Psyche data from over 140 million ...

SpaceX has a while to prepare for the mission, as the Psyche spacecraft isn’t expected to lift off until July 2022. The asteroid is in a Sun-centric orbit and is situated between the orbits of ...

In late January this year, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft turned its cameras to the sky and captured some incredible images. The twin cameras onboard, part of the spacecraft’s imaging system, photographed ...

This is through the Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration (DSOC) aboard the Psyche spacecraft. The DSOC was able to achieve "first light," successfully sending and receiving data.

Scientists are also eyeing the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche, which will be orbited by NASA’s Psyche spacecraft starting from 2029 to 2031. Near-earth asteroids will be in the limelight as space mining ...

It was part of the technology demonstration known as Deep Space Optical Communications, which is attached to the Psyche spacecraft traveling to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

The launch is planned for this August, and the Psyche spacecraft may make first contact with the Psyche asteroid in 2026. This content is protected by copyright and may not be reused. If you want ...

The 15-second video was beamed to Earth from Nasa’s Psyche spacecraft, 19 million miles (30 million kilometers) away. It took less than two minutes for the ultra high-definition video to reach ...