NASA Probe Begins 12-Year Tour To Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids

Credit: Bill Ingalls / NASA
CAPE CANAVERAL—A NASA spacecraft has begun a 12-year, 4 billion-mi. mission to explore an unusual population of asteroids that became locked in Jupiter’s orbit during the early days of the Solar System’s formation. The probe, named Lucy, lifted off aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 5...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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