NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is shown in a clean room at the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 8, 2022. DSOC’s gold-capped flight laser ...

On May 15, 2026, NASA's Psyche spacecraft skimmed past Mars and came away a thousand miles per hour faster without burning a drop of its own fuel. The maneuver, a gravity assist, bent its path and ...

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) tech flying aboard Psyche spacecraft has been successfully demonstrated.

Launched in October 2023, Psyche is on its way to a metal-rich asteroid located between Mars and Jupiter. Even before ...

The 15-second video marked a new technological feat, in which NASA beamed a video from a record breaking distance using lasers. Reading time 4 minutes NASA just combined all of my favorite things: ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--All instances of Maxar Space in the release have been updated to Maxar Space Systems. The updated release reads: NASA’S PSYCHE—MAXAR SPACE SYSTEMS' FIRST DEEP SPACE ...

The Deep Space Optical Communications tool on the Psyche probe achieved successful data transmission to and from Earth from an unprecedented distance. Reading time 3 minutes A gold-capped laser ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft is on a roll. In the eight weeks since it left Earth on Oct. 13, the orbiter has performed one successful operation after another, powering on scientific instruments, ...

The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration's flight laser transceiver is shown at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California in April 2021, before being integrated with ...

The asteroid-bound spacecraft pulled off a ‘first light’ experiment only a few weeks into its 3.5 year journey. By Andrew Paul Published Nov 17, 2023 3:00 PM EST Add Popular Science (opens in a new ...