Launched NASA's Psyche spacecraft toward the metal-rich main-belt asteroid 16 Psyche, the first NASA science mission flown on Falcon Heavy. Both side boosters landed back at Cape Canaveral while the core stage was expended; Psyche also carries the Deep Space Optical Communications laser demonstration.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 8th
- of 14 Falcon Heavy flights
- Date and time
- 13 October 2023, 14:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon Heavy
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 2023-157
- Launches in 2023
- 167th of 223
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