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NASA's active Lucy spacecraft completed two Earth gravity assists and flybys of Dinkinesh and Donaldjohanson after its 2021 launch; it continues toward eight Jupiter Trojan asteroids, including several satellite targets.
- Destinations
- EarthShow Earth in the explorer
- DinkineshShow Dinkinesh in the explorer
- SelamShow Selam in the explorer
- DonaldjohansonShow Donaldjohanson in the explorer
- EurybatesShow Eurybates in the explorer
- QuetaShow Queta in the explorer
- PolymeleShow Polymele in the explorer
- Polymele's unnamed satelliteShow Polymele's unnamed satellite in the explorer
- LeucusShow Leucus in the explorer
- OrusShow Orus in the explorer
- PatroclusShow Patroclus in the explorer
- MenoetiusShow Menoetius in the explorer
- Launch vehicle
- ULA Atlas V 401
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
- Countries
- United States
- Mission types
- Flyby
Chronology
Mission timeline
Launch
Launched on a ULA Atlas V 401 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
The cited source reports 5:34 a.m. EDT (UTC−4), converted to 09:34 UTC.
Earth
Mission architecture
Vehicles
Trajectory record
Time-dependent navigation trajectory
Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.
Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.
- Lucy: Reconstructed · October 16, 2021 to March 31, 2033
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through October 4, 2026
- Lucy - NASA Science — NASAMission page · Supports: mission claims · destination/body context · event claims
- NASA, ULA Launch Lucy Mission to ‘Fossils’ of Planet Formation - NASA — NASAOther · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Completes Asteroid Flyby - NASA Science — NASAOther · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Completes Asteroid Donaldjohanson Flyby - NASA Science — NASAOther · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Prepares for Second Earth Gravity Assist - NASA Science — NASAOther · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context
- Levison et al. (2024): A contact binary satellite of the asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- Noll et al. (2020): Detection of a satellite of Eurybates — NASAMission page · Supports: destination/body context
- Brown et al. (2021): The orbit and density of the Eurybates–Queta system — OTHERMission page · Supports: destination/body context
- Levison et al. (2025): Lucy science and mission overview — OTHERMission page · Supports: destination/body context
- Lucy team: Polymele mutual events, June 30, 2026 correction — OTHERMission page · Supports: destination/body context