The VERITAS Venus mission had been scheduled to lift off in late 2027.
"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," NASA officials said in alate Friday."NASA will work closely with JPL management over the coming months to address the challenges raised in the report. The board will meet again in spring 2023 to assess progress.
Psyche, which will visit its metal asteroid namesake, will still need to find money to cover an expected development fund shortfall even after NASA delays theVERITAS, NASA's Lori Glaze warned while speaking with reporters in a press conference Friday.
Programmatic changes to Psyche are coming in the meantime. The investigation board identified a range of staffing issues, including lack of communication due to hybrid work associated with COVID-19 isolation protocols; a rapid changeover in management ; and employees being unable to easily bring forward issues to people higher up the mission's chain of command.
Leshin emphasized that the Psyche team would need to look at their processes to"make sure that we are doing the highest-value things," including finding the right metrics and focusing on innovation. The lessons learned from this process, she said, will help with managing other forthcoming NASA missions like
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