18 October 2021
NASA's Lucy mission launches, encounters problem with solar panel
... like a lot, but it will be enough to power Lucy throughout its entire 6.4-billion-kilometre, 12-year journey through space... science, tweeted 17 October. In the current spacecraft attitude, Lucy can continue to operate with no threat to its health and...
06 January 2017
NASA selects three new missions to study the early solar system and energetic X-rays from black holes
...years after the birth of the Sun that made the final cut. Lucy, a robotic spacecraft, is scheduled to launch in October 2021 and ...hold vital clues to deciphering the history of the solar system. Lucy, like the human fossil for which it is named, will...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
...) will go to the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos to determine whether they are captured asteroids, while NASA’s Lucy mission will visit six small bodies trapped at the Jovian Lagrange points 4 and 5. Processes in an evolving solar...
13 August 2021
Stuck valves keep Starliner grounded, August flight now unlikely
.... These include a SpaceX Cargo Dragon capsule set for launch 28 August and NASA’s robotic science probe Lucy. Lucy, which is the first-ever mission to explore Trojan asteroids in orbit near Jupiter, is scheduled for liftoff atop...
24 August 2016
Elon Musk To Be Special Keynote Speaker at IAC 2016
The 67th International Astronautical Congress will welcome Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, as a special keynote speaker. This year's IAC will be held in Guadalajara, Mexico, September 26-30. Musk will speak on the second day of the Congress, ...
03 January 2023
Outer Space: 100 Poems
... the sciences with the thoughts of authors from Shakespeare to Simic (a poet whose work was included on NASA’s Lucy mission to the asteroids); its subjects range from “The Light of Stars” to “Dr Rendezvous Takes Communion on the Moon...
