WASHINGTON, June 24, 2022 - NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT 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
Media interested in participating in the call should send their full name, media affiliation, email address, and phone number by 1 p.m. ET today to Katherine Rohloff at: katherine.a.rohloff@nasa.gov. NASA's media accreditation policy is online.

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

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

SOURCE NASA