The next waypoint on Psyche's voyage will be a flyby of Mars in May 2026. Officials expect Psyche to keep that date, which is ...

Fast communications could speed up science on the asteroid mission. A NASA laser just fired successfully in a deep-space test. On Nov. 14, NASA picked up a laser signal fired from an instrument ...

The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) flight transceiver is inside a large tube-like sunshade and telescope on the Psyche spacecraft, as seen here inside a clean room at JPL.

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has officially resumed full-time propulsion following a temporary suspension earlier this year. According to a report from NASA Science, engineers successfully restored the ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is shown in a clean room at the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 8, 2022.

“Psyche will break records for deep space travel using SEP,” said Chris Johnson, CEO for Maxar Space. “Maxar leads the industry in propulsion systems that use the Sun’s energy to keep a ...

NASA successfully launched its Psyche deep space probe from Kennedy Space Center in Florida Oct. 13, 2023. The probe is bound for a toward a metal-rich asteroid 2.2 billion miles away show in this ...

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment launched on board the Psyche spacecraft on October 13 as the first demonstration of laser, or optical, communications from as far away ...

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) payload will test a laser data link between the spacecraft and Earth during the mission's transit out to Psyche. Laser communication isn't new.

The launch today of NASA’s Psyche mission to visit a metal asteroid will include an extra bonus, as the spacecraft will carry a test of a new communications system. Testing Space Lasers for Deep ...

A NASA probe launched into space Friday on a 2.2-billion-mile journey to a huge, metal-rich space rock in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The Psyche spacecraft lifted off atop one ...

NASA launched a new deep space probe from Florida today sending its Psyche spacecraft 2.2 billion miles from Earth toward one of only nine known metal-rich asteroids. It’s the 14th planetary ...