NASA Declares Unlatched Lucy Solar Array Good Enough
A rendering of the Lucy spacecraft with solar arrays fully deployed.
Credit: Southwest Research Institute/NASA
NASA has suspended efforts to fully deploy a troublesome solar array on its Lucy probe, but says the mission can still go on as planned. The array failed to deploy fully following the launch of the Lucy spacecraft on the first-ever mission to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. In an update issued Jan. 19...
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