#SpaceX: Falcon Heavy launches Psyche for 2029. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 14 October 2023
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#SpaceX: Falcon Heavy launches Psyche for 2029. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/falcon-heavy-successfully-launches-psyche-asteroid-mission/
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| 0:45.2 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor. I'm the surface of the planet earth. We're in |
| 0:49.7 | to orbit. Thanks to Falcon Heavy, lifting Psyche's mission. Bob Zimmerman, he keeps the website |
| 0:55.5 | behind the black. He can also tell us what is Psyche. Bob, good evening to you. What's the Psyche |
| 1:01.2 | mission? Congratulations, SpaceX and other success. Good evening. Good evening, John. Yes, |
| 1:06.9 | SpaceX, Falcon Heavy rocket. I had another successful launch. It's been actually remarkable. |
| 1:13.3 | This world for a while was the most powerful rocket on earth. It still is the most |
| 1:21.3 | cross-effective heavy-lift rocket that exists because it's operational and can launch frequently. |
| 1:28.1 | Once again, it's reusable, partly reusable. It launched NASA's Psyche mission, asteroid mission. |
| 1:37.2 | Psyche is a mission to go to the asteroid Psyche. Psyche is a metal asteroid. It is thought to be |
| 1:46.7 | mostly nickel iron. The theory is that it is the core of a broken-up planet, very possibly the planet |
| 1:55.6 | that formed the asteroid belt that broke up. This is the theory. We don't know the hypothesis. |
| 2:02.2 | We don't really know, but that's the goal. Look at this. There's enough metal in this asteroid, |
| 2:07.7 | by the way, to supply the earth from the very beginning of the iron age to today, many times |
| 2:13.6 | over. As a valuable resource someday for the space-firing people and space, this is a valuable |
| 2:22.0 | piece of real estate. It launched and successful launch. Psyche will now spend the next years |
| 2:29.3 | traveling to the asteroid Psyche. It will first fly by Mars in 2026. That's to give it a bit of |
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