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LOS ANGELES, June 3, 2026, 4:03 PM PDT NASA says its Psyche spacecraft picked up speed and tweaked its course after skimming just 2,864 miles (4,609 km) from Mars on May 15. Don Han, who leads navigation for Psyche at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, put the gravity assist’s payoff at about a 1,000 mile-per-hour velocity kick and a one-degree tilt in the craft’s orbit around the sun. Next stop: a metal-rich asteroid, with arrival set for 2029. (NASA) Psyche just ticked off its last major planetary checkpoint before heading into the asteroid belt. The team pulled off a gravity assist,

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