# NASA Spacecraft to Investigate Metal-Rich Asteroid Psyche By Launching Futuristic Electric Thrusters Emitting Cool Blue Glow

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/nasa-spacecraft-to-investigate-metal-rich-asteroid-psyche-by-launching-futuristic-electric-thrusters-emitting-cool-blue-glow-2/
- Published: 2021-09-28T09:30:35-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Photo caption: The photo on the left captures an operating electric Hall thruster identical to those that will propel NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, which is set to launch in August 2022 and travel to the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. […] Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Article by Aubrey Clarke. The Science Times – September 21, 2021. Next year, NASA will launch a spaceship to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche using a futuristic propulsion technology that generates a “cool blue glow.” NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, developed the spacecraft to investigate the strange rock. […] Click here to view original web page at www.sciencetimes.com Video: NASA Psyche Mission: Journey to a Metal World – April 3, 2018.