NASA’s Lucy Mission Extends its Solar Arrays | Editor Picks | Trending

Join us behind the scenes as NASA's Lucy mission tests the deployment of its massive solar arrays in the thermal vacuum chamber at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado. These impressive circular arrays, each nearly 24 feet (7.3 m) wide, are a crucial part of Lucy's 12-year odyssey through the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. Lucy is set to break records for a solar-powered mission, embarking on a journey of 530 million miles (853 million km) from the Sun. These enormous solar arrays will capture the sunlight necessary to power the spacecraft as it ventures through the depths of space.

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