{"id":149234,"date":"2022-10-31T18:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T23:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/nasas-mission-to-the-heart-of-a-dead-protoplanet-is-back-on"},"modified":"2022-10-31T18:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T23:22:17","slug":"nasas-mission-to-the-heart-of-a-dead-protoplanet-is-back-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/nasas-mission-to-the-heart-of-a-dead-protoplanet-is-back-on","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s mission to the heart of a dead protoplanet is back on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-mission-to-the-heart-of-a-dead-protoplanet-is-back-on2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mission to explore a metallic asteroid could launch in October 2023.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The agency announced on October 28 that after months of scrutiny, an independent review board has decided it\u2019s possible to move forward with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/psyche-launch-delay\">the Psyche mission<\/a> \u2014 humanity\u2019s first venture to a metallic asteroid, 16 Psyche.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s New \u2013 The Psyche mission is now on track to launch in October 2023, which means it could reach its namesake destination in August 2029 after a gravity-assist swing past Mars in 2026. In the meantime, the mission team is testing the spacecraft\u2019s flight software, something that became a sticking point back in June when NASA realized that Psyche stood no chance of being ready in time for its original mid-October 2022 launch date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mission to explore a metallic asteroid could launch in October 2023. The agency announced on October 28 that after months of scrutiny, an independent review board has decided it\u2019s possible to move forward with the Psyche mission \u2014 humanity\u2019s first venture to a metallic asteroid, 16 Psyche. What\u2019s New \u2013 The Psyche mission is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}