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Nasa is building a spacecraft to reach an asteroid worth $10 quintillion – The Independent
The rock is floating in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter
Nasa has officially begun the final assembly of its Psyche spacecraft, which will explore an asteroid of the same name worth $10 quintillion.
The space agency shared images and video of the craft being put together from itsJet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The process should take a year before it is shipped to Cape Canaveral in Florida to launch, scheduled for August 2022.
The news follows the shipment of the Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) Chassis to the laboratory, which is the…
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