Construction of the Space probe for NASA's Psyche Mission

[spacerunner]

Hello everybody,

speaking of covered crossbars, anyone who knows me knows that as a retired researcher I can't stop thinking about it and I want to know what it looks like underneath.

So I continued searching and actually found what I was looking for.

In this photo from an early phase of the construction of the solar probe (2021-03-29) you can also see the uncovered rod system, which consists of more struts than previously assumed.


Source: NASA

Now I don't want to recreate that exactly, but the insight alone helps me with my scratch build, as I can at least modify the back of the rod system a little, so that the rear Foil cladding should then resemble the shape of the images shown in the last post and look better.

In this way one can get the model closer and closer to the original until you are satisfied with the result.