Lindy Elkins-Tanton @ltelkins Twitter profile

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Lindy Elkins-Tanton

@ltelkins

4 years

The microphone was inspired by someone who was visually impaired. The sounds from Mars are to help people experience it. Love this, accessible Mars. @NASAPersevere

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A robot parade at #mars2018 — the round ones are autonomously following the dog. Also, a drone.

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That launch was UNBELIEVABLE. Here I am standing outside Hangar AE with the rocket rising above me. GO ⁦ @MissionToPsyche ⁩ !! Ultra fantastic job ⁦ @SpaceX ⁩!

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I just heard someone describe aerospace engineering as "calculus plus arguing." Oh yes.

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Ooo look -- icy moons lander prototype and me at @NASAJPL !

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11 months

Here's what happens after launch! An epic thread... @MissionToPsyche is ready to go, soon as weather gives us a break! The attempt on Fri. Oct. 13 (my big brother's bday, along w a great friend at SpaceX on Psyche team, so VERY good luck) is 10:19:43 AM East. time. (1/n)

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3 years

Tiny rabbits enjoy eating prickly pear flowers.

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It's tiny, tiny bunny season!

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Going on pad last Wednesday, to say goodbye to our beautiful @MissionToPsyche spacecraft. Surreal, shivering with excitement. Thank you @SpaceX ! #PI_Daily

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5 years

Holding what might be the largest known Martian meteorite! Part of MARS!

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BEAUTIFUL separation! No rotation on the s/c whatsoever! @SpaceX nails it! @MissionToPsyche

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11 months

Happy to report the spacecraft is healthy and initial checkout is underway (don’t hold your breath - it’s over 100 days long). I’m off to Pasadena to join the ⁦ @MissionToPsyche ⁩ ops team.

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Happy to report @MissionToPsyche magnetometer is on and working beautifully. We are stepping slowly thru the whole Initial CheckOut (ICO) and I'll report on progress periodically. Seems good moment to show our new metal shirts! Ltd edition alas from friend of the team. #PI_Daily

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6 years

Sending warm, supportive thoughts out to humankind - a vast number of women and men are having traumas from the past reactivated by listening to the current debate, and to the strong, brave testimony. I am surprised by the strength of my own reaction. Be kind to each other today.

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3 years

Right now the @MissionToPsyche team is getting briefed on our @SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch. Whoa. #PI_Daily

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11 months

Silver launch boots. That is all. ⁦ @MissionToPsyche ⁩

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3 years

Rabbit ear-washing masterclass. Share with anyone you know who needs to practice.

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3 years

I am concerned that JPL does not have enough ladders to properly build @MissionToPsyche . Will be back on lab in ~10 days to check again! #PI_Daily

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3 years

Launch vehicle Critical Design Review for @MissionToPsyche and @SpaceX all day today and most of yesterday. Pad 39A, here we come! #encapsulation #groundTrack #MechanicalInterface #AcousticsShockVibe #SeparationAnalysis #PI_Daily

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5 years

It’s astronaut music! @Astro_Cady @Cmdr_Hadfield @II_ASU @ad_astra2 @jamestanton

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11 months

New weather brief: Dropping probability of violating weather rules for @MissionToPsyche to 15%! so 85% chance of weather being OK. Keep your fingers crossed that ALL the other things go well!

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4 years

Pluto and Charon orbit around a common center of mass, and then these moons orbit around them both. Beautiful.

Andrew Rader

@marsrader

4 years

Pluto has a whole system of moons. (📷 NASA)

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5 years

Hello space enthusiasts! Starting today, several mission Principal Investigators & Deputy PIs will be daily tweeting their everyday tasks, efforts, challenges in working on their missions. Goal is to share the experience! (1/2) 🚀🛰🚀

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2 years

100!! ⁦ @MissionToPsyche ⁩ #PI_Daily

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3 years

Iron meteorites machined into spheres show octahedral structure of kamacite and taenite minerals, making the Widmanstätten pattern. Psyche won't look like this but these metals likely make up a significant fraction of the asteroid. At @SESEASU . #PI_Daily @MissionToPsyche

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Just had the first @MissionToPsyche all-team meeting for 2023, with ~130 ppl. THIS IS IT just nine months to launch! This is going to be a much better year than last year. #PI_Daily Just to be confusing, here's another beautiful pic of @EuropaClipper , Highbay Bob in background.

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@ltelkins

3 years

No one can hear you shout "Happy New Year" in space...thanks @NASAWebb team for your immense hard work!

NASA Webb Telescope

@NASAWebb

3 years

#HappyNewYear ! As work on our sunshield mid-boom deployments went late into New Year's Eve, our team is pausing activities to rest & prepare for sunshield tensioning tomorrow, Jan. 2. Tensioning is expected to last at least 2 days: #UnfoldTheUniverse

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World record: @MissionToPsyche spacecraft contains 1,085.5 kg of xenon, the most ever launched. Today we vent and prime the EP system! #ElectricPropulsion #PI_Daily (photo of rocket engine, not EP)

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@ltelkins

8 months

Exactly the words we want to see: Here's part of today's flight team email updates on the @MissionToPsyche spacecraft. Spacecraft Status: Current system mode remains SYS_NOMINAL Spacecraft is power positive and thermally stable Downlink is configured for 360 kbps downlink

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@ltelkins

11 months

In a conference room with the team and at that moment there was a HUGE cheer and scream! BEAUTIFUL separation. @MissionToPsyche

Eric Berger

@SciGuySpace

11 months

Congratulations to NASA, @ltelkins and her team, and SpaceX on the successful launch of such a cool mission. Can't wait to see Psyche's results in the coming years.

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Look at @LucyMission 's beautiful asteroid PAIR!

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Discovers 2nd Asteroid During Dinkinesh Flyby - NASA

On Nov. 1, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by not just its first asteroid, but its first two. The first images returned by Lucy reveal that the small main belt asteroid Dinkinesh is actually a binary...

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@ltelkins

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The @MissionToPsyche spacecraft just exceeded 30 light seconds for one-way communication. Tomorrow, a few more steps with the xenon thrusters-purging the lines and preparing them for test. Here's a photo of our @SpaceX launch that @SciGuySpace just posted with Ars Technica.

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@ltelkins

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Initial Check-out going great for @MissionToPsyche . I'm feeling nostalgic for the years we spent with the physical spacecraft. Here, @SpaceX 's tip-off photo, which we thought would be the last we'd ever see, until....(1/2)

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10 months

Today: 20,000 King penguins in Fortuna Bay, South Georgia island.

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6 years

Great new graphic of the @NASAPsyche trajectory just cleared for public release -- thank you David Seal! When are we thrusting? When are we in conjunction? What're the lighting conditions? It's all here.

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Today in @MissionToPsyche ops: Switching from the low-gain to the high-gain antenna, now that we are far enough away not to damage the @dsn_status and vice-versa (abt 7 MMkm as I write). Will get 6x data rate. Here's the antenna before it was released to space. #PI_Daily

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@ltelkins

3 years

Can't show the spacecraft yet (photos in review, stay tuned...) but this is what I looked like right after seeing, for the first time in over a year, that miracle of engineering, our big @MissionToPsyche deep-space spacecraft! A pretty special #PI_Daily from me.

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5 years

Big news!!! ⁦ @NASAPsyche ⁩ will launch with ⁦ @SpaceX ⁩ !! #PI_Daily

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for the Psyche Mission - NASA

NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Psyche mission. The Psyche mission currently is targeted to

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@ltelkins

2 years

Just got the bound galleys in the mail! Prepping for (book) launch June 7. Feels totally surreal.

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@ltelkins

11 months

Look at that beauty! It's our spacecraft, tucked up safe inside its fairing. That encapsulation happened in a big clean room, and now it's safe to roll slowly from the mainland over to LC-39A. Getting there! @MissionToPsyche #PI_Daily

Max Evans

@_mgde_

11 months

Psyche is on the move! Earlier this morning, @NASA ’s #missiontopsyche spacecraft was transported to LC-39A from its clean room facility in Titusville, FL. One step closer to liftoff! 📸 - @NASASpaceflight

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3 years

Ten years ago Ben Weiss, @maria_zuber , and I wrote a paper about core formation in earliest planetesimals. Then we started planning a mission: @MissionToPsyche . Now we're building and preparing to launch in...13 months! #PI_Daily

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2 years

YESS!! Go @MissionToPsyche ! We've made it through COVID and technical challenges and the great persistence of the amazing team is now going to carry us to launch. #PI_Daily

NASA

@NASA

2 years

Our #MissionToPsyche is moving forward. 🚀 Following an internal review of mission development issues that caused the team to miss the planned 2022 liftoff to a distant metal-rich asteroid, Psyche is now targeting a launch window that opens Oct. 10, 2023:

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3 years

Today's tiny tiny bunny might be the tiniest bunny of all. #desertcottontail

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6 years

What the robot sees. Boston Robotics at @JeffBezos ’ #mars2018

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2 years

Amazing day - signed the book!

National Academy of Sciences

@theNASciences

2 years

Today Linda T. Elkins-Tanton ( @ltelkins ) of @ASU is being inducted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of innovative research on the physics and chemistry of terrestrial planetary formation. Watch the #NAS159 livestream:

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Sunday update: The @MissionToPsyche spacecraft continues to be SYS_NOMINAL, thermally stable, power positive. 😀🛰️🚀

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@ltelkins

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It's the @MissionToPsyche spacecraft! Video by Vishnu Reddy, UofA: "Psyche spacecraft (moving dot) from our backyard this morning. It was 1.48 million km away from Earth. Stars appear as short streaks as I was tracking on the spacecraft." Note: now abt 3.6 million km away

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@ltelkins

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Hard to take in the scale - the fairing is 5.2 meters in diameter and 13.8 meters tall. That's 45 feet, about a four-story building! Just the fairing!

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@NASA_LSP

11 months

🤘🎸Rock and roll…to LC 39A! The #MissionToPsyche spacecraft, protected by its payload fairings, made the move from the processing facility to the launch pad hangar at @NASAKennedy . It will now be mated to a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. 📲

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3 years

Here's the @MissionToPsyche spacecraft in the high bay at @NASAJPL , with me and @Dr_ThomasZ on our first visit! A photo I'm going to keep forever.

Thomas Zurbuchen

@Dr_ThomasZ

3 years

Excited to join Psyche PI Lindy Elkins-Tanton as she saw “her” spacecraft for the first time at @NASAJPL ! Psyche is @NASA ’s first mission to a metal world in the main asteroid belt. By exploring an asteroid, #MissiontoPsyche will learn more about the history of our solar system.

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Woo hoo @NASAPsyche confirmed for phases C and D! Very good meeting this morning at NASA HQ. go team!! 🚀🚀🚀

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@ltelkins

11 months

We're going to visit an unknown world, a new kind of world, with a metal surface. Launching as soon as weather gives us a window! @MissionToPsyche

Everyday Astronaut

@Erdayastronaut

11 months

I absolutely love hearing @ltelkins talk about why the @MissionToPsyche is so exciting! What a perfect description of the scientific method, “Almost certain to be completely wrong”, but the excitement is the discovery! I can’t wait for the Psyche mission!

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@ltelkins

9 months

The @MissionToPsyche is now on Day 4 of the 7-day Long Duration System Test. This test consists primarily of thrusting with the elec. propulsion system, to show the s/c is ready for normal cruise. (1/2) #PI_Daily

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@ltelkins

2 years

Woo hoo made Amazon's best science books of 2022!!

Amazon Science

@AmazonScience

2 years

📖 #20 : A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman: A Memoir ✍️: @ltelkins 🔗:

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World, please join me in welcoming the next Director of the @ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration, Prof. Meenakshi Wadhwa! Mini has that great combination of excellence in science, dedication to the team, and vision for future. @SESEASU @minwadhwa

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@ltelkins

5 years

Approach plan for @NASAPsyche s/c! Nav and trajectory people are wizards.

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@ltelkins

3 years

SIX MONTHS TO LAUNCH. #PI_Daily @MissionToPsyche

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@ltelkins

2 years

Yesterday was tough for team @MissionToPsyche . Aug. 1 was the day we hoped our beautiful spacecraft would leave the Earth. We worked beyond exhaustion, trying to make it. So this is for you, @MissionToPsyche team! You are the best. And we're hoping for 2023. #PI_Daily

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@ltelkins

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.⁦ @NASAJPL ⁩ is looking gorgeous today. In the wake of ⁦ @NASA ⁩’s budget-cutting, tho supporting the need for reform, pls remember that this is a national treasure and security jewel that does things in space no other group on Earth can yet do. We need JPL strong.

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@ltelkins

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A dream I never expected to fulfill - today we watched a humpback whale create a bubble net for feeding, and I videoed it from the NatGeo @LindbladExp Explorer’s deck.

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@ltelkins

2 years

Say hello ⁦ @MissionToPsyche ⁩! It’s Media Day in the high bay. #PI_Daily

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@ltelkins

11 months

This is our ride, my friends! @MissionToPsyche

SpaceX

@SpaceX

11 months

Falcon Heavy in the hangar at 39A in Florida before it rolled out to the pad for tomorrow morning’s static fire test

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Working with the team and visiting the beautiful ⁦ @MissionToPsyche ⁩ spacecraft in the clean room at ⁦ @NASAKennedy ⁩. #PI_Daily

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@ltelkins

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Wakened this morning to icebergs! We are still about 9 hours' travel west of South Georgia. Takes more than 48 hours to sail to SG from Falklands. Watching albatrosses and prions and petrels.

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@ltelkins

5 years

Get ready, we are going to Titan, where it snows hydrocarbons! #Dragonfly is @NASA 's next New Frontiers mission!

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@ltelkins

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And TODAY @MissionToPsyche has completed initial checkout! S/c in background-sequence control, which is the operational paradigm for cruise and the remainder of the mission. Mission day 106: System mode = SYS_NOMINAL Spacecraft is power positive and thermally stable. Go Psyche!

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@ltelkins

3 years

Apparently I don’t even know myself! Look what my friend David noticed!

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@ltelkins

3 years

Our last camera image of Webb… off it goes.

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3 years

Checking in on the beauty today. #PI_Daily

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11 months

Today we put on bunny suits and went into the clean high bay to say good-bye to the @MissionToPsyche spacecraft. It's about to be encapsulated in the rocket fairing. This is the big building it's in, and with the imager team a few days ago (can't share today's photos). #PI_Daily

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@ltelkins

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Well, my friends, I've written a book about my life in science: *A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman* coming out with @WmMorrowBooks June 7. And I've made the requisite personal website, w links in case you might want to pre-order:

Is there work, and life, or is there just one thing: Life. - Lindy Elkins-Tanton

My new memoir, Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman, launches June 7, 2022. Purchase Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman here.

lindyelkinstanton.com

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Today on @MissionToPsyche the flight team is unlocking the gimbals for the Hall Thruster arms. 9.5-hour process; includes turning the spacecraft so the release mechanisms are at the correct temperatures before triggering release. #PI_Daily Photo: John Krauss from 13 days ago

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Spacecraft achieved SYS_NOMINAL on Saturday, right on schedule. She's out in space, where she was designed to be. Thanks, @elonmusk , for the shout-out! GORGEOUS launch by @SpaceX for @MissionToPsyche .

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

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Falcon Heavy launching @MissionToPsyche for @NASA

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Thanks @TeenVogue ! And here's what I hope everyone knows: you don't need to be a scientist or an engineer to participate in space missions. We need EVERYONE -- business, marketing, art, writing, PR, media, project management, graphic design, you name it. #findyourpassion

Teen Vogue

@TeenVogue

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Meet @ltelkins —a planetary scientist who totally rocks (lol, get it?).

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Our giant Psyche asteroid model has arrived at ⁦ @NASAJPL ⁩ from ⁦ @Maxar ⁩, where it was used during our site visit in 2016 as we competed for ⁦ @MissionToPsyche ⁩. Weirdly exciting and motivating! #PI_Daily

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Social media space experts have come to cover ⁦ @MissionToPsyche ⁩’s launch! Super fun to talk Psyche with them and my dear friend ⁦ @NASAJPL ⁩ director ⁦ @LaurieofMars ⁩! 🚀🛰️

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@ltelkins

11 months

I suspect this is never, ever going to get old for me.

Jenny Hautmann

@JennyHPhoto

11 months

Psyche launched yesterday at 10:19 a.m. ET from LC-39A. @MissionToPsyche will take nearly six years to reach the metal-rich asteroid '16 Psyche' which is located between Mars and Jupiter. 🔊 Sound on! 📷: Me for @SuperclusterHQ

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HUGE moment in a sequestered conference room at @NASAKennedy , near the shortest possible time to get from separation to telemetry lock with Earth. Like clockwork, smooth like silk! @MissionToPsyche

David Oh

@marstimrdad

11 months

🚀 Smiles all around and a big thumbs up at the news that @MissionToPsyche has successfully deployed its solar arrays and found the Sun, a happy milestone marking the beginning of its Journey to a Metal World. #NASA #Psyche

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4 years

Passed milestone to move to Phase D. Here we go: Assembly, Test, and Launch!! @MissionToPsyche

NASA Solar System

@NASASolarSystem

4 years

Our #PsycheMission has passed a critical milestone that moves it a step closer to exploring a mysterious metal world up close. See more:

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We've got some weather in Florida so @MissionToPsyche won't try to launch today. This is why we have a launch period - a series of days that we can launch and reach our target - each with one instantanous launch second. The one for beautiful Friday Oct. 13 is 10:19:43 AM Eastern.

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4 years

I just learned that the originally proposed name for Uranus was "George."

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The @MissionToPsyche spacecraft is already so far away that switching DSN stations is because of the spin of the Earth; the spacecraft was never orbiting our planet. #PI_Daily

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Our 1st free online course! @NASAPsyche mission wants to include as many ppl in the world as we can. Thx to vision of @Dr_ThomasZ and the mad skills of @ASU Ed Plus: world-wide free online course, on process of a NASA space mission! 🚀Link in this article:

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@ltelkins

4 years

Phosphine is intensely interesting, but it'll be nothing but interesting until we go there and sample.

Is there life floating in the clouds of Venus?

Telescope observations spy a gas high in the atmosphere of Venus that on Earth is made by microbes.

www.bbc.com

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Now ⁦ @MissionToPsyche ⁩ is 38.5 light seconds away, and tomorrow I start out to go 0.047 light seconds away, to South Georgia and Antarctica on vacation. Expect penguin photos!

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@ltelkins

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You know it’s real when @NASAJPL puts of mission banners all over campus! @missiontopsyche

Laurie Leshin

@LaurieofMars

1 year

It’s beginning to look a lot like Psyche…everywhere you go!!

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Good morning from the @MissionToPsyche spacecraft. All is nominal (that's ideal, in s/c terms), mission day 78, and the craft is 113 times farther than the Moon, a one-way light time travel of 2.4 minutes. 😀🛰️🚀 #PI_Daily

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6 years

Ok seriously LEVITATING Psyche!! By Brenton Chase! @NASAPsyche Inspired!

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3 years

Heading back to Arizona tomorrow. See you soon, gorgeous ⁦ @MissionToPsyche ⁩ spacecraft! #PI_Daily

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3 years

And @MissionToPsyche 's spacecraft is coming out of the big @NASAJPL thermal-vacuum chamber, after more than two weeks of testing at temperatures and pressures expected in flight. Good results. Will tweet more photos later today! #PI_Daily

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Feels great to have the beautiful spacecraft at Kennedy! Now, some months of integration, fueling, final tests, software completion.

NASA's Launch Services Program

@NASA_LSP

2 years

🛰 #MissiontoPsyche arrives @NASAKennedy ’s Launch and Landing Facility. Psyche will journey to a metal-rich asteroid between Mars and Jupiter to investigate iron cores. Launch targeted for August 1, 2022.

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Lindy Elkins-Tanton

@ltelkins

2 years

Good outfit for meeting at NASA HQ? Boots too much? (I love these boots).

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@ltelkins

2 years

The hardcover books have arrived! Launch is June 7. Suddenly feels real!

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Lindy Elkins-Tanton

@ltelkins

2 years

Here’s the beautiful new 1/4-scale @MissionToPsyche spacecraft model at @NASAJPL !

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Lindy Elkins-Tanton

@ltelkins

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Good morning, @MissionToPsyche spacecraft. One-way comms light time 28.6 seconds, range to Earth 8.53 MMkm. Today we are turning on the DSOC instrument! #PI_Daily

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Lindy Elkins-Tanton

@ltelkins

6 years

Lazy darn rover. Do they do this on Mars? ⁦ @NASAJPL ⁩

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Lindy Elkins-Tanton

@ltelkins

6 months

1.006!! That’s how many AU away our ⁦ @MissionToPsyche ⁩ spacecraft is today! The spacecraft is now farther from Earth than Earth is from the Sun. Go Psyche! And our banners are still up at ⁦ @NASAJPL ⁩.

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Lindy Elkins-Tanton

@ltelkins

3 years

Big news! @EuropaClipper has a ride to space! Both Clipper and @MissionToPsyche will go on Falcon Heavies. Good job, @SpaceX ! #PI_Daily

Thomas Zurbuchen

@Dr_ThomasZ

3 years

Launching October 2024! Our @EuropaClipper will ride on a Falcon Heavy rocket carrying a sophisticated suite of science instruments to investigate whether Jupiter’s icy moon has conditions suitable for life:

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Lindy Elkins-Tanton

@ltelkins

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In 13 days, barring any (knock on wood) emergencies, my son and I are taking a National Geographic/Lindblad trip to the Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia, and the Falklands, a life-long dream trip and a much-needed vacation. Stay tuned for photos and general over-enthusiasm!

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Lindy Elkins-Tanton

@ltelkins

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AAAAH !!! Here we go! @MissionToPsyche

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Lindy Elkins-Tanton

@ltelkins

11 months

Ways to keep up with the @MissionToPsyche : 1. Very accurate s/c and asteroid position information: 2. Follow @MissionToPsyche and me on social media platforms 3. News and blog on Thanks for your interest!! #PI_Daily

Psyche Mission | A Mission to a Metal World

The Psyche mission will explore, for the first time ever, an asteroid made not of rock or ice, but of metal. The mission will investigate planet formation.

psyche.asu.edu

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