NASA conquers 'golden 9th planet' between Mars and Jupiter
The NASA spacecraft will rely on Mars for extra thrust, helping it to head straight for 16 Psyche - the metal-rich asteroid believed to be the core of the incomplete 9th planet.
According to SciTech Daily, NASA's Psyche mission will officially launch from 2022 and is expected to reach the mysterious asteroid in late 2025 to early 2025. This will be the first metallic asteroid that humans have studied directly.
Spaceship Psyche is about to launch
The mission will be led by Arizona State University, managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL-Caltech). The key "warrior" is a large capacity solar-powered spacecraft, with a chassis manufactured at Maxa Technologies in Palo Alto, California - USA.
Psyche, full name 16 Psyche, is one of the asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, which telemetry shows to be particularly rich in metals.
There are studies that show it to be a giant lump of gold and platinum but there are also studies that indicate it may just be. a lump of iron and nickel.
Later, NASA leaned more towards the iron-nickel hypothesis, although the same space agency previously estimated that it was a gold treasure worth more than 10 trillion USD. Whatever it is, NASA is still very interested in conquering Psyche.
The key point lies in a study published in 2021 by Caltech (California Institute of Technology), which in collaboration with JPL, shows that Psyche may be the lost "9th planet" of the Solar System.
Psyche of the present.
It was never fully formed, and Psyche is the metal planetary core left over from some unfortunate planetary evolution, most likely a massive collision with another planet while it was still young. too immature.
If this is true, Psyche will provide invaluable data about the "dawn" of the solar system and possibly how Earth and other planets formed.
Theo NASA, tàu Psyche sẽ bay đến quỹ đạo sao Hỏa rồi dùng chính lực hấp dẫn của hành tinh này như một hệ thống đẩy tăng cường, tiếp sức đến Psyche. Tàu vũ trụ dự kiến thực hiện 4 quỹ đạo đồng tâm xung quanh tiểu hành tinh, thu thập dữ liệu.
Tàu sẽ trang bị một vài máy ảnh, một máy quang phổ neutron tia gamma giúp đo thành phần nguyên tố bề mặt của Psyche, một từ kế giúp phát hiện bất kỳ từ trường nào còn sót lại - thứ có thể chứng minh nó phải là hành tinh, thậm chí một hành tinh lớn.
Công nghệ máy đẩy Halifax hiệu quả gấp 5 lần tên lửa bình thường sẽ đẩy tàu Psyche ra ngoài vũ trụ, nó sẽ tiếp tục hoạt động bằng một mảng pin Mặt Trời gồm 5 tấm có thể gập lại.
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