WATCH LIVE: NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Launches to a Metal Asteroid [Video]

Update: the launch was a success. You can rewatch it above by rewinding the footage. I can’t specify the exact time yet since the live video is not over.

From NASA:

Watch the Psyche spacecraft launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. NASA and SpaceX are now targeting launch at 10:19 a.m. EDT (1419 UTC) Friday, Oct. 13. The mission to Psyche will take us on a journey to a metal-rich asteroid.

During this mission we will be researching the largest metallic object in the solar system, how planets form and testing high-speed laser communications with Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology.