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  • Jupiter asteroid probe (Lucy) launches.

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 17 17:25:39 2021
    "NASA launched a first-of-its kind mission on Saturday to study Jupiter's Trojan
    asteroids, two large clusters of space rocks that scientists believe are remnants of primordial material that formed the solar system's outer planets.

    The space probe, dubbed Lucy and packed inside a special cargo capsule,
    lifted off on schedule from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 5:34 a.m. EDT (0934 GMT), NASA said."

    See:

    https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20211016-nasa-launches-history-making-probe-to-study-jupiter-s-asteroids

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 18 07:46:20 2021
    Uh oh. Hopefully, this issue will be resolved soon:

    NASA's Lucy probe is experiencing problem with one solar array

    "NASA had reason to celebrate Saturday after launching Lucy, a spacecraft tasked with investigating the Trojan asteroids locked in Jupiter's orbit. But Lucy appears to have encountered its first obstacle: One of the probe's two solar arrays, which are powering Lucy's exploration, may not properly be
    locked in place.

    "Lucy's two solar arrays have deployed, and both are producing power and the battery is charging," NASA said Sunday in a blog post. "While one of the arrays has latched, indications are that the second array may not be fully latched."

    See:

    https://www.cnet.com/news/nasas-lucy-probe-is-experiencing-problem-with-solar-array/

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  • From Snidely@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 12 15:13:08 2021
    Sunday, [email protected] murmurred ...
    "NASA launched a first-of-its kind mission on Saturday to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, two large clusters of space rocks that scientists believe are remnants of primordial material that formed the solar system's outer planets.

    The space probe, dubbed Lucy and packed inside a special cargo capsule, lifted off on schedule from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 5:34 a.m. EDT (0934 GMT), NASA said."

    See:

    https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20211016-nasa-launches-history-making-probe-to-study-jupiter-s-asteroids

    Working through a backlog of the teasers in sci.space.science, I just
    read the announcement of NASA's announcement of the Lucy and Psyche
    missons, January 2017.

    /dps

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    "This is all very fine, but let us not be carried away be excitement,
    but ask calmly, how does this person feel about in in his cooler
    moments next day, with six or seven thousand feet of snow and stuff on
    top of him?"
    _Roughing It_, Mark Twain.

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