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Lucy

Image: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab/Adriana Gutierrez · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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Lucy

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Image: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab/Adriana Gutierrez · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Launched
16 Oct 202109:34:00 UTC
Active for
5 years
Destinations
Dinkinesh, Donaldjohanson

A NASA mission on a twelve-year tour of the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit. On the way it has flown past two main-belt asteroids, finding that the first, Dinkinesh, has a small moon.

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Spacecraft

Lucy

Flyby
Active

Probe with two round solar arrays more than 7 m across, built to operate farther from the Sun than any solar-powered spacecraft before it.

Launch mass
1,550 kg
Dry mass
821 kg
Size
3.8 m × 2.8 m, span 15.8 m
Power
Solar
Designator
2021-093A

Mission details from science.nasa.gov.