A team of engineers and technicians worked on deploying and stowing stationary plasma thrusters (SPT) on NASA's Psyche spacecraft inside the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 4, 2023. This is part of the assembly, test, and launch operations preparations. The SPT are on a dual axis positioning mechanism, the DAPM, and together they make a DSM, or DAPM-Actuated SPT Module. Psyche will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy. Launch is targeted for Oct. 5, 2023. Riding with Psyche is a pioneering technology demonstration, NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment.
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NASA ID
KSC-20230804-MH-GEB01-0001-KSC-20230804-GEB01-Psyche_DAPM_Deployment_WON-3335530-3335530
Date Created
August 4, 2023
Center
KSC
Media Type
video
Photographer
NASA Glenn Benson
Location
Kennedy Space Center Property
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