CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, USA - 13 October 2023 - A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is launched from Launch Complex 39A,

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CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, USA - 13 October 2023 - A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is launched from Launch Complex 39A, Friday, October 13, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will travel to a metal-rich asteroid by the same name orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter to study it’s composition. The spacecraft also carries the agency's Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration, which will test laser communications beyond the Moon - Photo: Geopix/NASA/Aubrey Gemignani

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Location: Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA
Photo credit: © Geopix / Alamy / Afripics
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