The slip will allow the mission team to deal with a recently detected thruster issue.
rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 5. But that's no longer the plan; the mission team has pushed the liftoff back to Oct. 12.
"The change allows the NASA team to complete verifications of the parameters used to control the Psyche spacecraft's nitrogen cold gas thrusters," NASA officials wrote in an"The parameters were recently adjusted in response to updated, warmer temperature predictions for these thrusters," they added."Operating the thrusters within temperature limits is essential to ensure the long-term health of the units.
The Psyche launch will be just the eighth overally for the Falcon Heavy, the second-most powerful rocket currently in operation after NASA's
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