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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 ...
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.
NASA launched the Psyche spacecraft on 13 October 2023, an orbiter mission that will explore the origin of planetary cores by studying the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche, on a Falcon Heavy launch vehicle. On November 1, NASA's Lucy probe performed a flyby of asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh, revealing it to be a binary pair. [3] [4]
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.
NASA Venture Class Launch Services 2 (VCLS 2) Mission Two, [4] officially known as VCLS Demo-2FB. The ELaNa 43 mission, consisting of 8 CubeSats, [5] will launch on this flight. [6] Mission designated "Noise of Summer". 4 July 22:49 [9] [10] Long March 6A: 6A-Y7 Taiyuan LA-9A CASC: Tianhui 5C CNSA: Low Earth Earth observation: In orbit ...
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.