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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 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 ...
TRACERS is part of NASA's Small Explorers program, with a launch readiness date of 13 April 2025. [126] The ELaNa-53b mission, consisting of the SPRITE cubesat, will launched on this flight. April (TBD) [128] Long March 2F/G: 2F-Y20 Jiuquan SLS-1: CASC: Shenzhou 20: CMSA: Low Earth TBA
Lucy, a NASA space probe, was launched on 16 October [3] and began a 12-year journey to seven different asteroids, visiting six Jupiter trojans, and one Main Belt asteroid. [4] Trojans are asteroids which share Jupiter's orbit around the Sun , orbiting either ahead of or behind the planet.
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.
By studying these asteroids up close, scientists hope to learn more about how our solar system’s planets formed 4.5 billion years ago.
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 ...
An Atlas V rocket blasted off before dawn, sending Lucy on a roundabout journey spanning nearly 4 billion miles (6.3 billion kilometers). NASA's asteroid hunter Lucy soars into sky with diamonds ...