{"id":18499,"date":"2023-06-07T15:05:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T15:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/nasas-jet-propulsion-lab-fixed-staffing-failures-delaying-asteroid-mission"},"modified":"2023-06-07T15:24:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T15:24:26","slug":"nasas-jet-propulsion-lab-fixed-staffing-failures-delaying-asteroid-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/nasas-jet-propulsion-lab-fixed-staffing-failures-delaying-asteroid-mission","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Lab Fixed Staffing Failures Delaying Asteroid Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California has done an &#8220;outstanding&#8221; job in correcting the staffing shortages and problems that imposed years of delay on its Psyche mission to a nickel-iron asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, US space agency officials said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Steps taken by NASA, the agency\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, and Caltech, to put the Psyche mission on track for an October 2023 launch have been outstanding, according to an independently appointed review board. NASA and JPL convened the board last summer after the Psyche mission team requested to delay the spacecraft\u2019s August 2022 launch to a metal-rich asteroid of the same name,&#8221; the release said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Review Board (IRB) led by retired aerospace executive A. 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