Status
Success
Rocket
Vehicles
Landing Zone 1
B1064
Flight #4
76 day turnaround
244th Falcon recovery attempt
232nd successful Falcon recovery
159th consecutive successful Falcon landing and recovery
Landing Zone 2
B1065
Flight #4
76 day turnaround
245th Falcon recovery attempt
233rd successful Falcon recovery
160th consecutive successful Falcon landing and recovery
Mission Details
Psyche
Psyche is an orbiter mission that will explore the origin of planetary cores by studying the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche. Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State University is the Principal Investigator who proposed this mission for NASA's Discovery Program. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will manage the project.
16 Psyche is the heaviest known M-type asteroid and is thought to be the exposed iron core of a protoplanet, the remnant of a violent collision with another object that stripped off its outer crust. Radar observations of the asteroid from Earth indicate an iron–nickel composition. On 4 January 2017, the Psyche mission was selected for NASA's Discovery #14 mission
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 2,600.0 kg
Heliocentric Orbit
Location
LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
Stats
2023
166th orbital launch attempt
SpaceX
276th mission
72nd mission of 2023
270th successful mission
242nd consecutive successful mission
Falcon Heavy
8th mission
4th mission of 2023
8th successful mission