In 2021, NASA successfully launched the Lucy mission, sending the unmanned ... To tuck Lucy into the nosecone of a rocket for launch, the arrays had to fold up. The plan was for each array to ...

On Dec. 12, at 11:15 p.m. EST, NASA's Lucy spacecraft ... Its first gravity assist on Oct. 16, 2022, one year after launch, boosted the spacecraft from an initial one-year orbit onto the present ...

Lucy has since travelled tens of millions ... Illustration: Caltech In February 2025, NASA will launch the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices ...