October 2021
Launch into the Deep Unknown NASA
Launch Vehicle: Atlas V401 | US-Space Launch Complex: SLC-41
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InfoK: 2021 Space-Probe Lucy: Flawless textbook launch executed from Cape Canaveral (Florida). The deep-space probe maps course onto a complex twelve-year trajectory accelerated by multi-stage gravity-assist maneuvers orbiting Earth.
November 2023
Happy coincidence at Dinkinesh Flyby 1
InfoK: During its initial unprogrammed bypass tracking across the main asteroid belt, Space-Probe Lucy discovers that asteroid Dinkinesh is an intrinsic binary system. The tiny newly discovered contact companion is formally named Selam.
2025 - 2027
En-Route to the Trojan Clusters Present
InfoK: Following its historical trajectory bypass tracking asteroid Donaldjohanson, Lucy charts course down a deep transit highway toward Jupiter's stable Lagrange vectors. Rendezvous intercept targeting the primary Trojan swarms initiates August 2027.
