Lucy Program
NASA Lucy is an active Discovery mission and the first spacecraft mission to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. Launched on October 16, 2021, Lucy will conduct a 12-year sequence of flybys of three main-belt asteroids and eight Trojan asteroids to investigate the early history of the solar system.
Identity
- Aliases
- LucyLucy mission
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Name
- Lucy Program
- Status
- active
- Types
- explorationscienceresearch
Details
- Description
- NASA Lucy is an active Discovery mission and the first spacecraft mission to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. Launched on October 16, 2021, Lucy will conduct a 12-year sequence of flybys of three main-belt asteroids and eight Trojan asteroids to investigate the early history of the solar system.
- Leads
- Parent Program
- Participants
- Start Date
- 2021-10-16
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 12:42:50 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 13, 2026 at 12:42:50 UTC