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Lucy

Lucy is NASA's active mission to explore three main-belt asteroids and eight Jupiter Trojan asteroids with one interplanetary flyby spacecraft.

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Aliases: Lucy missionLucy Trojan asteroid mission
Name: Lucy
Status: active

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Description: Lucy is NASA's active mission to explore three main-belt asteroids and eight Jupiter Trojan asteroids with one interplanetary flyby spacecraft.
Destination: Three main-belt asteroid flybys including Dinkinesh and Donaldjohanson, followed by eight Jupiter Trojan asteroid flybys sharing Jupiter’s orbit; 11 asteroids in total and the first mission to explore the Jupiter Trojans
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Outcome: Lucy completed its Dinkinesh and Donaldjohanson asteroid encounters and continues its planned cruise toward the Jupiter Trojan flybys.
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Start Date: 2021-10-16
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Official Url: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/lucy/

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Creation Time: July 31, 2026 at 22:00:57 UTC
Updated Time: August 23, 2026 at 02:16:27 UTC
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