Shepard et al., 2017What is asteroid Psyche? Could asteroid Psyche be the heart of an early planet as big as Mars that lost its rocky outer layers? NASA will help planetary scientists find out, and so tease-out lessons for how the solar system’s planets likely formed. Sarah NobleWhen will the Psyche mission launch? It's scheduled to launch in August 2022, after which the Psyche spacecraft will arrive at Asteroid Psyche on January 31, 2026, after a fly-past of Mars in 2023.

Source: Forbes June 12, 2019 07:36 UTC