JPL also formed a team to actively manage the staffing shortage across multiple projects including Psyche. In response, the Psyche project has added appropriately experienced leaders and project staff throughout the project, including filling the project chief engineer and guidance navigation and control cognizant engineer positions. The board will meet again in spring 2023 to assess progress.įor the Psyche mission, the board recommended increasing staffing, establishing open communications and an improved reporting system, as well as strengthening the review system to better highlight what issues might affect mission success. NASA will work closely with JPL management over the coming months to address the challenges raised in the report. The review board – convened at the request of NASA and JPL – found a significant factor in the delay was an imbalance between the workload and the available workforce at JPL. The mission is moving forward as previously announced, and NASA will incorporate recommendations from the board to ensure its success. NASA and the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, which leads Psyche, shared a response Friday to the results of an independent review board convened to determine why the mission to study a metal-rich asteroid of the same name missed its planned 2022 launch opportunity.
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