NASA and SpaceX declared Wednesday they are remaining down from the October 12 send off of the Mind mission to the metal-rich space rock. The space organization and Elon Musk-drove private space innovation firm are presently focusing on a send off at 7.49 PM on Friday, October 13 from Send off Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Mind mission will require about six years to arrive at the space rock it is named after — 16 Mind. It was at first booked to send off on October 5, yet the American space organization deferred that to October 12. NASA said that delay permitted it to finish the check of boundaries used to control the shuttle's nitrogen cold gas engines.
The mission is going to the space rock circling among Mars and Jupiter, in excess of 500 million kilometers away. It will be the principal mission to investigate a space rock with a surface that contains a lot of metal rather than rock and ice. It is an endeavor to work on logical information on iron centers, a structure block of planet development.