The mission team continues to complete testing of the spacecraft’s flight software in preparation for the 2023 launch date.
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Psyche missed its planned 2022 launch period earlier this year as a result of mission development problems, leading to an internal review of whether the mission would be able to overcome these issues to successfully launch in 2023.
This continuation/termination review was informed by a project-proposed mission replan and a separate independent review, commissioned in June by NASA and the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (
The independent review board is still finalizing its report, which, along with NASA’s response, will be shared publicly once complete.
In preparation for the 2023 launch date, the mission team continues to complete testing of the spacecraft’s flight software. The new flight profile is similar to the one originally planned for August 2022, using a NASA Psyche Asteroid Mission Will Go Forward