18 October 2021
NASA's Lucy mission launches, encounters problem with solar panel
... Lucy throughout its entire 6.4-billion-kilometre, 12-year journey through space as it heads out to explore Jupiter’s elusive Trojan asteroids. But, in order to assure that there is enough energy to power the spacecraft throughout the mission, the...
06 November 2020
The Moon could have a long-lost "twin" in orbit around Mars
...Mars along its orbit is a family of asteroids known as Trojans. Along with Mars, these small rocky worlds can also be...safe havens” known as Lagrange points. Scientists think that the Trojans may have attached themselves to the Martian orbit just as ...
06 January 2017
NASA selects three new missions to study the early solar system and energetic X-rays from black holes
... spacecraft, is scheduled to launch in October 2021 and will visit a target-rich environment of Jupiter’s mysterious Trojan asteroids. The Trojans, currently trapped by Jupiter’s gravity, may have initially formed far from beyond the gas giants...
10 September 2021
Survey detects 461 Solar System objects not found before
... though has thrown up a few new interesting objects, including nine new “extreme” TNOs, four new Neptune Trojans, several new objects with high inclinations and an Oort cloud comet named after its discoverers; C/2014...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
...sail spacecraft that would perform a sample return from one Trojan asteroid. False colour image of the Occator crator on Ceres... Earth also share gravity wells. Earth’s leading and trailing Trojan regions are believed to have trapped a large number of ...
March 2015
Chasing comets together: the Vega project in the USSR and beyond
.... ISE suggested discussing the possibility of a small spacecraft joint project. The goal of the project is to fly to the Trojan asteroids for exploration. Our Mars rover ended up putting on quite a performance in Death Valley. But the collapse...
