The liftoff, the eighth for SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, is scheduled for Oct. 5.
, citing it as an essential operation. But there's no guarantee that waiver will be granted.
A delay wouldn't be the first for Psyche; the mission was originally supposed to launch last year, but it was pushed back after problems were discovered with the spacecraft's flight software. After it gets off the ground, Psyche will head toward its namesake, a bizarre 170-mile-wide metallic object in the mainThe spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at its destination in 2029, providing great looks at a very intriguing solar system body. Researchers think Psyche might be the exposed core of a protoplanet, whose rocky outer layers were stripped away by one or more impacts.
"I am so looking forward to seeing those first images," Lori Glaze, director of NASA's Planetary Sciences Division, said during a news conference earlier this month."They are going to be spectacular, when we finally get to see what this metal
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