Lucy (spacecraft)
thirteenth mission of the Discovery program; multiple-flyby reconnaissance of five Jupiter trojans
Lucy is a NASA space probe on a 12-year journey to eight different asteroids. It will visit a main belt asteroid as well as seven Jupiter trojans.[1][2] They will be fly-by encounters.[3] The Lucy spacecraft is the part of a US$981 million mission.[4]
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- ↑ Hille, Karl (2019-10-21). "NASA's Lucy Mission Clears Critical Milestone". NASA. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
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- ↑ "Lucy: The First Mission to the Trojan Asteroids". NASA. Archived from the original on 2020-12-06. Retrieved 2021-10-16. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ↑ Chang, Kenneth (6 January 2017). "A Metal Ball the Size of Massachusetts That NASA Wants to Explore". The New York Times.
- ↑ "Watch a video tour of NASA's Lucy asteroid explorer". Spaceflight Now. 6 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
