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NASA satisfied with solar array of Lucy asteroid spacecraft

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NASA satisfied with solar array of Lucy asteroid spacecraft

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The team behind NASA’s Lucy asteroid mission is suspending efforts to get a troublesome solar array to fully deploy and latch. 

Lucy launched in October 2021, beginning the first-ever visit to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. These are thought to be primitive objects from the early days of the solar system that orbit ahead of and behind the giant planet as it makes its way around the sun. However, one of the spacecraft’s two 24-feet-wide (7 meters) solar arrays did not fully unfold and latch as planned after Lucy reached space, and the team has been troubleshooting the issue throughout the mission. 



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