NASA’s Psyche mission was successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on October 13th. The spacecraft is traveling to a unique metal-rich asteroid”of the same name, which orbits the sun between Mars and Jupiter. It is expected to be captured by the asteroid’s gravity in late July 2029, and is NASA’s first mission to study an asteroid that has more metal than rock or ice. Psyche is the first in a series of NASA science missions to be the prim

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Treasure in Space: Golden Asteroid 16 Psyche Asteroid 16 Psyche has been dubbed the "golden asteroid". Estimated to be worth around ten quintillion dollars, this space rock contains massive amounts of valuable metals, including gold and platinum, making it more valuable than the entire global economy. But don’t expect a market crash just yet. Psyche is still safely orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. NASA, however, has already launched a mission to study it, not to mi

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