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On 31 January 2019, NASA announced that Lucy would launch in October 2021 on an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The total cost for the launch was estimated to be US$148.3 million. [25] On 11 February 2019, SpaceX protested the contract award, claiming that it could launch Lucy into the same orbit at a "significantly ...
The NASA Lucy mission will closely fly by the first of 10 asteroid targets on Wednesday. The mission will capture detailed images of Dinkinesh’s surface.
NASA Discovery Program mission to Venus. 2031 (TBD) [42] Commercial launch vehicle Cape Canaveral or Kennedy: TBA: Sample Retrieval Lander: NASA / ESA: TMI to Martian surface: Mars sample-return Mars Ascent Vehicle: NASA: Martian surface to TMI: Mars sample-return Lander component of the NASA–ESA Mars sample-return mission. It will carry NASA ...
The Lucy spacecraft is set to launch next month from Cape Canaveral. NASA's Lucy mission will be the agency's first study of a group of Trojan asteroids near Jupiter. The Lucy spacecraft is set to ...
Launch Date Mission Vehicle Launch Site Total Launch Cost* (million) 2010 [21] 2010.02.11 Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Atlas V 401 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 (CCAFS SLC-41) 2011 [22] 2011.03.04 Glory [launch failure] Taurus XL: Vandenberg AFB Launch Complex 576 (VAFB LC-576) 2011.06.09 Aquarius (SAC-D) Delta II ...
By studying these asteroids up close, scientists hope to learn more about how our solar system’s planets formed 4.5 billion years ago.
This is a timeline of known spaceflights, both crewed and uncrewed, sorted chronologically by launch date. Due to its large size, the timeline has been split into smaller articles, one for each year since 1951. There is a separate list for all flights that occurred before 1951.
NASA’s Lucy mission flew by the asteroid Dinkinesh this week, and the images it captured revealed not one but two space rocks. NASA’s Lucy mission went to visit an asteroid and got more than ...