Why Psyche is Falcon Heavy's "Most Metal Launch Ever"

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The Psyche mission is a NASA spacecraft which is going to investigate the largest M type asteroid in the solar system, M type asteroids are presumed to be metal rich, and the processes that lead to these asteroids are important in understanding the formation of the solar system.
Psyche was built by JPL using a commercial 1300 satellite bus, and launched on a Falcon Heavy on Friday the 13th.

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