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Launch is scheduled for October 16th!

https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/lucy
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Great. Looking forward to it!
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The Lucy mission is so ambitious, going to space as far as Jupiter orbit! Investigation of the Trojan asteroids is precious data. With this mission we will be able to get precise data to work on, as the asteroids are one of the main parts of the Solar system, still having its hypotheses and mysteries.
Going to an asteroid itself makes any mission remarkable.
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From Ars Technica today:
"Lucy’s solar panel hasn’t latched—a problem for a mission powered by the Sun"

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/10 ... y-the-sun/

"NASA’s Lucy Mission is safe and stable," the agency's chief of scientific exploration, Thomas Zurbuchen, said Sunday on Twitter. "The two solar arrays have deployed, but one may not be fully latched. The team is analyzing data to determine next steps. This team has overcome many challenges already, and I am confident they will prevail here as well."

Here' hoping for the best!

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I believe, we all will stay in touch.
Pioneering for the space always has huge potential.
Special missions bring precious data.

And what is great, that with smaller ones we go from breakthroughs to routines. While it took 60 years for satellites become a daily thing.
It takes couple decades or less for landing asteroids to take it's steps forward to become a regular thing. More countries are following US and Japan. UAE is going for it.

Combining the cooperative data from all the missions will make a huge leap for our understanding of the Solar system, hence safety and understanding of the future.

It is not of big surprise, that other countries go after the leaders:
What leaders are doing is numerous tests and refinements until the process is ready to go.
Any big project involves many countries' cooperation for the effectiveness of testing and production.
What is once a breakthrough becomes a routine sooner or later. Nowadays as soon as possible.
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