NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT) Friday to provide an update on the agency’s mission to study the Psyche asteroid. Audio of the briefing will livestream on the agency’s website.

Teleconference participants include:

• Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington
• Laurie Leshin, director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California
• Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Psyche mission principal investigator, Arizona State University

For more information about NASA’s Psyche mission, visit:

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/psyche/in-depth/