"A $1.2 billion mission to learn more about the metal-rich asteroid Psyche is   
   on track for launch on Oct. 5 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, NASA said   
   on Sept. 6.   
      
   “We’re really looking forward to the launch,” Project Manager Henry   
   Stone, with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, told   
   reporters during a news conference.    
      
   Over the next two weeks, the Psyche spacecraft is expected to be encapsulated   
   into its payload fairing and moved to SpaceX processing facilities at Kennedy   
   Space Center. The 20-day launch period opens at 10:38 a.m. EDT on Oct. 5.   
      
   Outfitted with a solar-electric propulsion system, Psyche is scheduled to take   
   six years to reach its namesake—the 173-mi.-wide Psyche asteroid located in   
   the main asteroid belt.   
      
   Scientists believe the asteroid may be part of the core of a planetesimal, the   
   building block of an early rocky planet. The mission is NASA’s first to a   
   planetary body that is neither primarily rock or ice, but metal. The research   
   is focused on    
   learning more about how rocky bodies formed, including Earth."   
      
   See:   
      
   https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/space/nasa-track-oct-5-la   
   nch-psyche-asteroid-mission   
      
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