Lockheed Applies Juno Heritage To Asteroid Mission

Credit: Southwest Research Institute
Lessons learned building Juno, the first solar-powered spacecraft to operate at Jupiter, will allow NASA’s Discovery-class Lucy spacecraft to explore six Trojan asteroids in lagrangian points moving through space ahead of and behind the Sun’s largest planet. Like Juno, Lucy will derive enough energy...

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