In August 2022, NASA will launch the Psyche mission. It will be the first mission to explore Psyche, a massive Metal asteroid in the main asteroid belt.
Highlights:
The asteroid Psyche is orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. The Psyche mission is one of NASA’s two early Solar System exploration missions.
The Lucy mission is another mission to study the early Solar System by exploring Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.
The Psyche Mission is the first mission to be launched by NASA to investigate Psyche, a unique giant metal asteroid.