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 ...

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 Deep Space Network is getting a new dish to help distant spacecraft phone home NASA's Psyche asteroid mission will test next-gen laser communications in space ...

Before Psyche even reaches its asteroid destination, it'll serve another purpose: demonstrating the next generation of deep space data transmission.

In a first-of-its-kind demonstration of deep space optical communication, the space agency streamed a high-definition video from 19 million miles away from Earth.

On November 16, NASA announced its Deep Space Optical Communications experiment aboard Psyche successfully achieved “first light” earlier this week, beaming a data-laden, near-infrared laser ...

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 ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, farther away than the Sun, has sent data through a laser over a record-breaking distance, and done so even faster than expected.

Aubrey Gemignani / NASA The Psyche mission will also be the first to use Hall-effect thrusters, a type of solar electric propulsion system, in deep space.

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.

“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 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 ...