NASA Psyche Mission: Spacecraft

The spacecraft destined to meet the asteroid Psyche.

The Psyche spacecraft including the solar panels is about the size of a singles tennis court. The body of the spacecraft is slightly bigger than a Smart Car and about as tall as a regulation basketball hoop. The spacecraft will include a Gamma Ray and Neutron Spectrometer, a Multispectral Imager, a Magnetometer and an x-band radio telecommunications system.

The Psyche mission will also test a sophisticated new laser communication technology, called Deep Space Optical Communication, that encodes data in photons to communicate between a probe in deep space and Earth.

Find the full detailed engineering model for free at:
https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/psyche-5-panel

Learn more about the Psyche Mission and find extra projects at:
https://psyche.asu.edu/