The postponement is due to a delay in the delivery of the spacecraft’s flight software, as well as equipment for its testing, with the result that NASA no longer has enough time to be ready for launch in 2022.
The “Soul” has sufferings and eventually he can … die. THE US Space Agency (NASA) announced the launch of its eponymous mission to the large metal-rich asteroids scheduled for this fall Psyche (Soul) is not going to happen. In fact, it is not ruled out that the mission – the first to a “metallic” asteroid – may eventually be canceled.
The postponement is due to delays in the delivery of the spacecraft’s flight software, as well as equipment for its testing, with the result that NASA no longer has sufficient time to be ready for launch in 2022. The “window” for launch from August 1 to October 11, in order for the spacecraft to reach the asteroid in 2026. But its engineers Jet Laboratory NASA (California) NASA (JPL) will not have time to make sure the spacecraft software is working properly.
NASA chose the Psyche mission in 2017 and has so far spent on it $ 717 million, while the total cost is budgeted at $ 985 million, including the rocket. If the spacecraft is launched in 2023 or 2024, due to the removal of 225 kilometers of asteroids in the distance between the Earth, it will not reach it before 2029 or 2030 respectively.
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