Tag: Lucy Mission
On 1 November 2023, NASA's Lucy space probe flew past the asteroid Dinkinesh at a distance of 431 kilometres. A satellite appeared behind the main belt asteroid, which is only 720 metres across, in the first image data received...
NASA’s Lucy mission, the agency’s first to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, launched at 5:34 a.m. EDT Saturday on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft was placed atop the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 401 rocket today in preparation to embark on a voyage to uncharted worlds in the Trojan asteroid swarms that orbit near Jupiter.
Encapsulated in the Atlas V...