Lucy’s Solar Powered Journey

Lucy’s Solar Powered Journey Continues
NASA’s Lucy mission is heading to the Jupiter Trojans – two swarms of unexplored asteroids trapped in Jupiter’s orbit. Lucy made a picture-perfect launch on October 16, 2021, but when the spacecraft began to unfurl its solar arrays, it encountered an anomaly. One of the arrays failed to fully deploy and latch shut, putting the mission at risk. For months, Lucy’s flight operations team worked meticulously to address the issue and put Lucy back on its solar-powered journey to the Jupiter Trojans. Read a-team-troubleshoots-asteroid-bound-lucy-across-millions-of-miles Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Dan Gallagher (KBRwyle): Producer Jonathan North (KBRwyle): Animator Kel Elkins (USRA): Data Visualizer Chris Tucker (Lockheed Martin): Videographer Dan Gallagher (KBRwyle): Narrator Ned Barbee (Lockheed Martin): Support Lauren Duda (Lockheed Martin): Public Affairs Nancy Neal-Jones (NASA/GSFC): Public Affairs Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support Universal Production Music: “Hypervelocity” by Sophy Olivia Purnell This video can be freely shared and downloaded at