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SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket To Launch NASA Mission To ...

Forbes-Feb. 29, 2020

SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket To Launch NASA Mission To 'Unique' ... the atmosphere of Mars, and Janus, designed to study binary asteroids.

Falcon Heavy to launch NASA Psyche asteroid mission
SpaceNews-Feb. 28, 2020

Falcon Heavy | Psyche, EscaPADE and Janus

Psyche is a NASA interplanetary mission to visit the main belt asteroid of the same name, 16 Psyche. Spacecraft will take 4 years and one Mars flyby to reach the ...

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2020/03/02/janus-satellite-to-explore-binary-asteroid/

Lucy: The First Mission to the

Trojan

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Mar 23, 2020 - Lucy will be the first space mission to study the Trojans. The mission takes its name from the fossilized human ancestor (called “Lucy” by her 

DART is scheduled for launch on 22 July 2021. It will head to the binary S-type asteroid system 65803 Didymos, consisting of a primary, Didymos A, roughly 0.8 km in diameter, and a secondary, Didymos B, roughly 160 meters across.

On 31 January 2019, NASA announced that Lucy would launch in October 2021 on an Atlas V 401 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The total cost for the launch is estimated to be US$148.3 million.

The launch is planned for July 2022 on a Falcon Heavy vehicle. The cost of the launch, including secondary payloads, is $117 million.

Psyche and Janus:

Astronomers created icon-like symbols for the first fifteen asteroids to be discovered, as a type of shorthand notation consistent with older notation for the classical planets. Psyche was given an iconic symbol, as were a few other asteroids discovered after 16 Psyche. The symbol , a semicircle topped by a star, represents a butterfly's wing, symbol of the soul (psyche is the Greek word for "soul"), and a star.^[9]

In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus (/ˈdʒeɪnəs/ JAY-nəs; Latin: IANVS (Iānus), pronounced [ˈjaːnʊs]) is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks to the future and to the past.