How do the Electric Thrusters on the Psyche Spacecraft Work?

Psyche is an SEP Mission…. What’s that mean?

Engineering intel from a Psyche JPL Chief Engineer

What does a Chief Engineer do on NASA’s Psyche Mission….and how did I get this gig?

Margins

How do we estimate the resources we need to cover future unknowns?

Some Thoughts on Requirements

(What exactly does a systems engineer do? Here’s one thing…)

Planning to measure an unknown asteroid

Instrument robustness when you don’t know what you’re going…

PDR Season

It’s the festive completion of the mission’s formulation stage

“How Building Psyche is like Making a Movie…”

What are Psyche’s Systems Engineers doing now?

I’m David Oh, and this is my second time writing for the Psyche Blog. As Psyche’s Project Systems Engineer, I lead a team responsible for making…

Happy Birthday Psyche: Year 1

We were selected for flight January 4, 2017…what have we been doing this year?

Today is January 3, 2018, and Psyche’s selection for flight was announced by NASA on January 4, 2017. Other than…

Psyche’s Narratives: A Student Intern’s Literary View of the Psyche Mission