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A plaque on the Lucy mission featuring 20 messages from people on Earth Onboard the spacecraft is a golden plaque that contains its launch date, the positions of the planets at the launch date, the continents of Earth at the time of launch, its nominal trajectory, and twenty speeches, poems, and song lyrics from people such as Martin Luther ...
The data collected during the Lucy mission flyby will continue to return to Earth over the next week. This information will help the mission team prepare for the spacecraft’s future asteroid ...
Status Notes Image Ref Giotto (first pass) ESA: 2 July 1990 flyby 22,730 km success first Earth flyby, en route to Comet Grigg-Skjellerup [1] Galileo (first pass) NASA: 8 December 1990 flyby 960 km success gravity assist en route to Jupiter; minimum distance 960 km [2] Sakigake (first pass) ISAS: 8 January 1992 flyby 88,790 km success
Dinkinesh was Lucy ' s first and smallest asteroid flyby during its mission, and is the smallest main-belt asteroid explored by spacecraft yet. [27] The Dinkinesh flyby served to test Lucy ' s autonomous tracking capabilities before it will apply them to its main science targets, the Jupiter trojans.
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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'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 next month from Cape Canaveral.
15094 Polymele / p ɒ l ɪ ˈ m iː l iː / is a primitive Jupiter trojan from the Greek camp, approximately 21 kilometers (13 miles) in diameter.It is a target of the Lucy mission with a close flyby planned to occur in September 2027.