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The Lucy spacecraft is the centerpiece of a US$981 million mission. [7] It was launched on 16 October 2021. On 4 January 2017, Lucy was chosen, along with the Psyche mission, as NASA's Discovery Program missions 13 and 14 respectively. [6] [8]
The Dinkinesh flyby served to test Lucy ' s autonomous tracking capabilities before it will apply them to its main science targets, the Jupiter trojans. [27] [31] Lucy took its first images of Dinkinesh on 3–5 September 2023, when the asteroid was 23 million km (14 million mi) away from the spacecraft. [9]
Landsat 9 is an Earth observation satellite launched on 27 September 2021 from Space Launch Complex-3E at Vandenberg Space Force Base on an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle. [12] NASA is in charge of building, launching, and testing the satellite, while the United States Geological Survey (USGS) operates the satellite, and manages and distributes the data archive. [13]
The close approach was designed to help the Lucy spacecraft test its suite of equipment, including its terminal tracking system, which allows the spacecraft to locate the space rock autonomously ...
A spacecraft named Lucy is on its way to a part of space that’s never been explored after being rocketed into the sky from Cape Canaveral before Saturday’s sunrise. The probe launched on time ...
Donaldjohanson is planned to be visited by the Lucy spacecraft that was launched on 16 October 2021. The flyby is scheduled for 20 April 2025, and will approach the asteroid to a distance of 922 kilometers (573 mi) at a relative velocity of 13.4 kilometers (8.3 mi) per second.
Lucy · Sun · Earth · 52246 Donaldjohanson · 3548 Eurybates · 21900 Orus · 617 Patroclus Artist's impression of the Lucy spacecraft flying past the Patroclus-Menoetius system The Patroclus–Menoetius system is a scheduled target for Lucy , a flyby mission to multiple asteroids, mostly Jupiter trojans .
Lucy · Sun · Earth · 52246 Donaldjohanson · 3548 Eurybates · 21900 Orus · 617 Patroclus Eurybates is planned to be visited by the Lucy spacecraft which launched in 2021. [ 22 ] The flyby is scheduled for 12 August 2027, and will approach the asteroid to a distance of 1,000 km (620 mi) at a relative velocity of 5.8 km/s (13,000 mph) and a ...