Lucy (spacecraft)
Lucy is a NASA space probe on a 12-year journey to eight different asteroids. It will visit a main belt asteroid as well as seven Jupiter trojans.[1][2] They will be fly-by encounters.[3] The Lucy spacecraft is the part of a US$981 million mission.[4]
Lucy (spacecraft) Media
Harold F. Levison, principal investigator of the Lucy mission.
wo engineers work on L’Ralph, the most complicated instrument that will fly on the Lucy mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.
CAD drawing of the L'LORRI
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A plaque on the Lucy mission featuring 20 messages from people on Earth
Lucy will alternate visiting Jupiter's Greek (Template:L4) and Trojan camps (Template:L5) every six years.
Seven of the Lucy mission's targets: the binary asteroid Patroclus/Menoetius, Eurybates, Orus, Leucus, Polymele, and the main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson.
Lucy spacecraft in launch configuration
Lucy Rollout and Lift & Mate
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References
- ↑ Hille, Karl (2019-10-21). "NASA's Lucy Mission Clears Critical Milestone". NASA. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ↑ "Lucy: The First Mission to the Trojan Asteroids". NASA. Archived from the original on 2020-12-06. Retrieved 2021-10-16. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ↑ Chang, Kenneth (6 January 2017). A Metal Ball the Size of Massachusetts That NASA Wants to Explore. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/science/nasa-psyche-asteroid.html.
- ↑ "Watch a video tour of NASA's Lucy asteroid explorer". Spaceflight Now. 6 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
