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IEEE Buenaventura Section Mixer + NASA Mission to Asteroid Psyche πŸ—“

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Sponsor: Buenaventura Section
Speaker: Dr. Timothy Weise
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Date: 08 Aug 2025
Time: 06:00 PM PDT to 08:30 PM PDT
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Location: Westlake Village, California
Reservations: IEEE
Summary:
Psyche is the first mission to explore an asteroid with a surface that contains substantial amounts of metal rather than rock or ice. The mission will improve our knowledge of iron cores, a previously unexplored building block of planet formation.

Mission Manager Dr. Weise will give an overview of the NASA mission Psyche named after the Metal asteroid Psyche.
Bio: Dr. Timothy Weise is a senior mission operations leader at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, currently serving as Mission Manager for the Psyche mission to a metal-rich asteroid. With over 25 years of experience, he has played key roles on missions including Dawn and InSight, leading teams through spacecraft operations and deep space navigation.

He holds a Ph.D. in Astronautics from USC and degrees in Aeronautical Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

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