NASA's Lucy Mission Broadens its Sun-oriented Clusters - 2021

NASA's Lucy mission tests the sending of its sun-oriented clusters in the warm vacuum chamber at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado. Every one of the two round clusters is almost 24 feet (7.3 m) wide. These exhibits determination Lucy on its 12-year odyssey through the Jupiter Trojan space rocks, breaking records for a sun-based fueled mission by voyaging 530 million miles (853 million km) from the Sun. These huge clusters will catch the daylight expected to control the rocket as it goes through profound space.