An illustration showing the expected motion of the Lucy spacecraft and its instrument pointing platform during the encounter with Dinkinesh.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI
HOUSTON—NASA’s Lucy mission has conducted a successful flyby of the small main-belt asteroid Dinkinesh in a demonstration of its onboard terminal tracking system, science instrumentation and high-gain antenna for communications. Highly anticipated data from the Nov. 1, 12:54 p.m. EDT flyby will take...
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