The first NASA mission to study Jupiter's asteroid swarms will launch at 5:34 a.m. ET on Saturday. Lucy is the first spacecraft designed to visit the Trojan asteroids and observe these remnants from the early days of our solar system.
Weather conditions will be 90% favorable on the morning of October 16, when the Lucy mission is set to leave Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 5:34 a.m. ET. If it doesn't launch at that time, the window for liftoff remains open for 75 minutes.Lucy will embark on a 12-year mission to explore Jupiter's Trojan asteroid swarms, which have never been observed.
. Fastest orbiting asteroid found in our solar systemThe spacecraft is set to fly by an asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and then it will explore seven of the Trojans. Over the course of its mission, Lucy will end up swinging back to Earth's orbit three separate times for gravity assists that can slingshot it on the right path. That will make Lucy the first spacecraft to travel to Jupiter and return to Earth.
's Lucy mission will explore seven Trojan asteroids. This illustration shows the binary asteroid Patroclus/Menoetius, Eurybates, Orus, Leucus, Polymele and the main belt asteroid DonaldJohanson.Eurybates is not one of the Trojans, but it was chosen because it's the largest remnant of an ancient massive collision, meaning that it could reveal a look at what's inside an asteroid.
spacecraft carrying history-making asteroid sample now heading toward Earth"Lucy will be
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