Lucy (spacecraft)

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]

References
  1. Hille, Karl (2019-10-21). "NASA's Lucy Mission Clears Critical Milestone". NASA. Retrieved 2020-12-05. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. "Lucy: The First Mission to the Trojan Asteroids". NASA. Retrieved 2021-10-16. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. Chang, Kenneth (6 January 2017). "A Metal Ball the Size of Massachusetts That NASA Wants to Explore". The New York Times.
  4. "Watch a video tour of NASA's Lucy asteroid explorer". Spaceflight Now. 6 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
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