NASA's Parker Solar Probe is speeding in toward the Sun after a swing past Venus on Oct. 16, successfully using the planet's gravity to shape its path for its next closest approach to our star.
By Miles Hatfield NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center New results from NASA satellite data show that space weather – the changing conditions in space driven by the Sun – can heat up Earth's hottest and highest atmospheric layer. The findings, published in July in Geophysical Research Letters, used data from NASA's Global Observations of the …
Following a successful launch on Oct. 16, 2021, analysis of NASA's Lucy spacecraft systems show the spacecraft is operating well and is stable. Lucy's two solar arrays have deployed, and both are producing power and the battery is charging. While one of the arrays has latched, indications are that the second array may not be …
NASA's Lucy mission, the agency's first to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, launched at 5:34 a.m. EDT Saturday on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Over the next 12 years, Lucy will fly by one main-belt asteroid and seven Trojan asteroids, making …
During its 12-year mission, NASA's Lucy spacecraft will explore eight asteroids. It will explore more asteroids than any previous mission. On its way out to the Trojan asteroids, Lucy will fly by the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025. There, Lucy will fly by five of these L4 Trojans: Eurybates and its …
Lucy's twin solar arrays have deployed. Acquisition of the signal has been confirmed and health of the spacecraft is being checked. Lucy is now operating on its own power and begins its journey to reach the Trojan asteroids.
We have spacecraft separation! Cheers and applause can be heard from the launch teams as the Lucy spacecraft separates from the United Launch Alliance Atlas V Centaur upper stage to fly freely for the first time. In just a few minutes, the spacecraft's solar arrays will deploy.
The second engine burn of the Centaur has ended. Next up will be separation of the Lucy spacecraft from Centaur.
The second engine burn of the Centaur upper stage has begun and will last for about six minutes.
The first engine burn of the Centaur upper stage has ended. Centaur, with the Lucy spacecraft, is now in a coast phase.
