(AGENPARL) – mar 15 agosto 2023 August 15, 2023 
RELEASE 23-088
*NASA Invites Media to Psyche Launch, Mission will Study an Asteroid*
*/Credits: NASA/*
Media accreditation is now open for the upcoming launch of NASA’s Psyche
[1] spacecraft, for a mission to a unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the
Sun between Mars and Jupiter.
NASA and SpaceX are targeting 10:38 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 5, for launch
on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s
Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Media accreditation deadlines for the Psyche launch are as follows:
* U.S. media and U.S. citizens representing international media must apply
by 5 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Sept. 12.
* International media without U.S. citizenship must apply by 5 p.m. on
Tuesday, Aug. 29.
Media accreditation requests should be submitted online at:
https://media.ksc.nasa.gov [2]
A copy of NASA’s media accreditation policy is available online [3]. For
questions about accreditation, please email:
contact NASA Kennedy’s newsroom: 321-867-2468.
The asteroid Psyche may be part of a core of a planetesimal, a building block
of an early planet. Deep within rocky, terrestrial planets – including
Earth – scientists infer the presence of metallic cores, but these lie
unreachably far below the planets’ rocky mantles and crusts. Psyche will
offer a unique window into the process that created terrestrial planets.
NASA will post updates on launch preparations to prepare the spacecraft for
its 2.5-billion-mile (4-billion-kilometer) journey on the Psyche blog [5].
Riding with Psyche is a pioneering technology demonstration, called NASA’s
Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment, which will be NASA’s
furthest-ever test of high-bandwidth optical communications.
/Para obtener información sobre cobertura en español en el Centro Espacial
Kennedy o si desea solicitar entrevistas en español, comuníquese con
321-501-8425,// o //Messod Bendayan/ [7]/, 256-930-1371//./
For more information about Psyche and DSOC, visit:
*https://www.nasa.gov/psyche [8]*
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[2] https://media.ksc.nasa.gov
[3] https://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-agencywide-media-accreditation-policy
[5] https://blogs.nasa.gov/psyche/
[8] https://www.nasa.gov/psyche