encounters. The Lucy spacecraft is the centerpiece of a US$981 million mission. It was launched on 16 October 2021. On 4 January 2017, Lucy was chosen, along...

(264 mi) from the asteroid on 1 November 2023. During the flyby, the Lucy spacecraft discovered that Dinkinesh has a contact-binary natural satellite, named...

star BPM 37093, nicknamed "Lucy" Lucy the elephant, tourist attraction in Margate, New Jersey, United States Lucy (spacecraft) This page or section lists...

(Australopithecus) – young female A. afarensis fossil from Ethiopia Lucy (spacecraft) – the NASA mission launched in 2021 to study Trojan asteroids described...

white dwarf star Lucy (spacecraft), a NASA space probe launched in 2021 to explore the Trojan asteroids Lucy (Candlebox album), 1995 Lucy (Maaya Sakamoto...

stations, various upper stages, and discarded Space Shuttle external tanks. Spacecraft may change mass over time such as by use of propellant. During the Shuttle–Mir...

January 2023). "NASA's Lucy Team Announces New Asteroid Target". NASA. Goddard Digital Team (2 November 2023). "NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Discovers 2nd Asteroid...

for Lucy Mission". NASA. January 31, 2019. Retrieved January 23, 2020. Dunbar, Brian (December 3, 2020). Hille, Karl (ed.). "The Lucy Spacecraft and Payload"...

source, which is in the public domain. Kretke, Katherine. "NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Discovers 2nd Asteroid During Dinkinesh Flyby". NASA. Retrieved 19...

board the New Horizons, Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), and Lucy spacecraft Near-infrared imaging spectrometer similar to the CRISM instrument...

2026. Cosmic Vision, ESA program that has several mission classes The Lucy spacecraft will perform a similar mission. It was selected as part of the Discovery...

part of the Voyager program and like its sister craft Voyager 2, the spacecraft's extended mission is to locate and study the regions and boundaries of...

Neptune. It remains the only spacecraft to have visited either of the ice giant planets, and was the third of five spacecraft to achieve Solar escape velocity...

result of a corruption probe launched against him. October 16 – The Lucy spacecraft is launched by NASA, the first mission to explore the Trojan asteroids...

exploration of space is conducted both by human spaceflights and by robotic spacecraft. Space exploration Big science – Term used to describe a series of changes...

asteroids. Trojan asteroids, Greek camp Trojan asteroids, Trojan camp Lucy (spacecraft) Telesto Calypso Helene Polydeuces, follows a "tadpole" orbit around...

Lockheed Martin and is operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 5, 2011 UTC...

Earth, and became the first spacecraft to orbit an outer planet. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory built the Galileo spacecraft and managed the Galileo program...

the plane of the Solar System. To change the orbital inclination of a spacecraft to about 80° requires a large change in heliocentric velocity, the energy...

and speed of a spacecraft, typically to save propellant and reduce expense. Gravity assistance can be used to accelerate a spacecraft, that is, to increase...

against near-Earth objects (NEOs). It was designed to assess how much a spacecraft impact deflects an asteroid through its transfer of momentum when hitting...

by the Lucy spacecraft, which would observe it en route to its main target of several Jupiter trojans. The Lucy probe is named after the "Lucy" hominid...

a minor planet provisional designation that was mistakenly given to the Lucy mission's Centaur upper stage booster during its Earth gravity assist flyby...

sample return mission". Space.com. Retrieved 11 January 2023. "NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Discovers 2nd Asteroid During Dinkinesh Flyby". NASA. 2 November 2023...

2029. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) manages the project. The spacecraft will not land on the asteroid, but will orbit it from August 2029 through...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), with a team led by Alan Stern, the spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the primary mission to perform a flyby study...

of the Lucy spacecraft. IAU · 9269 9270 Sherryjennings 1978 VO8 Sherry Ann Jennings (born 1962) is the Mission Manager of the Lucy spacecraft at NASA's...

including its rings and natural satellites. The Flagship-class robotic spacecraft comprised both NASA's Cassini space probe and ESA's Huygens lander, which...

Sensor-2 instrument and the deputy principal investigator for the Lucy spacecraft L'Ralph instrument. Since 2014, she has been the principal investigator...

spacecraft was in the coma of Wild 2. The solar array design was derived primarily from the Small Spacecraft Technology Initiative (SSTI) spacecraft development...