NASA's Lucy launches to Trojan Asteroids

NASA's Lucy launches to Trojan Asteroids

Oct 16, 2021 by FOX News

Key Facts

  • NASA PLAN FOR WI-FI ON THE MOON TESTED TO SPAN CLEVELAND'S DIGITAL DIVIDE Lucy’s prime mission is nearly 12 years long, during which it will visit eight asteroids – a Main Belt asteroid and seven Trojans – that have been sharing an orbit with Jupiter at the planet's Lagrange points as it goes around the sun for billions of years.
  • Lucy, scheduled to launch Saturday at 5:34am will observe Trojan asteroids, a unique family of asteroids that orbit the sun in front of and behind Jupiter.
  • Lucy – traveling at an average cruising speed of 39,000 mph and 15,000 mph as it flies by each asteroid – will also be the first spacecraft to journey a bit farther than the distance of Jupiter and return to the vicinity of the Earth for a final gravity assist that will send it back out to its final Trojan encounters.
  • NASA's Lucy mission will explore a record-breaking number of asteroids, flying by one asteroid in the solar system’s main asteroid belt, and by seven Trojan asteroids

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