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Lucy Trojan-Asteroid Spacecraft

NASA Lucy is an active interplanetary spacecraft launched in 2021 to fly by a record number of main-belt and Jupiter Trojan asteroids, including the 2025 Donaldjohanson encounter and planned Trojan encounters through 2033. NASA's spacecraft facts list a 1,500 kg wet mass, a 15.82 m width, a 7.28 m height with solar arrays deployed, a 3.95 m height with arrays stowed, and a 2.00 m body depth. The structured dimensions capture the deployed height and width; the stowed/depth qualifiers remain in this description because the current schema has no deployment-state or depth field. Lucy's installed dual-mode chemical propulsion subsystem combines hydrazine monopropellant attitude-control and trajectory-correction thrusters with hydrazine/nitrogen-tetroxide bipropellant main-engine capability.

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Aliases
LucyLucy spacecraftLucy Trojan Asteroid MissionLucy asteroid flyby spacecraftLucy Mission
Family Name
Lucy
Full Name
Lucy Trojan-Asteroid Spacecraft
Roles
interplanetary_probeflybyresearch
Status
active
Type
spacecraft

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Description
NASA Lucy is an active interplanetary spacecraft launched in 2021 to fly by a record number of main-belt and Jupiter Trojan asteroids, including the 2025 Donaldjohanson encounter and planned Trojan encounters through 2033. NASA's spacecraft facts list a 1,500 kg wet mass, a 15.82 m width, a 7.28 m height with solar arrays deployed, a 3.95 m height with arrays stowed, and a 2.00 m body depth. The structured dimensions capture the deployed height and width; the stowed/depth qualifiers remain in this description because the current schema has no deployment-state or depth field. Lucy's installed dual-mode chemical propulsion subsystem combines hydrazine monopropellant attitude-control and trajectory-correction thrusters with hydrazine/nitrogen-tetroxide bipropellant main-engine capability.
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First Flight Year
2,021
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Propulsion Configurations
  • Entries
    • Count
      1
      Placement
      spacecraft
      Propulsion System
      Role
      maneuvering
      Stage
      spacecraft
      Variant Notes
      Integrated Lucy propulsion subsystem: hydrazine monopropellant attitude-control and trajectory-correction thrusters plus hydrazine/nitrogen-tetroxide bipropellant main-engine capability; exact component product models are not asserted.
    Name
    Lucy dual-mode chemical propulsion installation
    Notes
    Lucy's installed propulsion subsystem combines one bipropellant main engine assembly for deep-space maneuvers with six monopropellant trajectory-correction maneuver thrusters and eight monopropellant attitude-control thrusters. The relationship records one whole-subsystem installation; the component count and functional split remain in the propulsion identity and notes.
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Creation Time
August 12, 2026 at 17:40:36 UTC
Updated Time
September 8, 2026 at 00:42:03 UTC