Asteroid
Lucy
Lucy is catalogued by GCAT as a deep-space mission in the Discovery program.
Interactive three-dimensional model of Lucy. Mission information is also available as text below.
Operational or in flight at the GCAT cutoff
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Lucy is catalogued by GCAT as a deep-space mission in the Discovery program. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 2021-093; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
The launch
- Launch
- 16 October 2021, 09:34:00 UTC
- Launch location
- Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Eastern Test Range
- Launch vehicle
- Atlas V 401
- Orbit
- Earth-escape trajectory
Launch intelligence
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket launched the Lucy mission on Saturday, October 16, 2021 at 9:34 AM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- United Launch Alliance (ULA)
- Vehicle
- Atlas V
- COSPAR launch ID
- 2021-093
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Oct 16, 2021, 09:34 UTC
- Target T-0
- Not published
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Oct 16 2021
- Pad and location
- SLC-41, Cape Canaveral SFS
Clear Temp: 72.36F Wind: 2.16mph
- Temperature
- 72.36°F
- Wind
- 2.16 mph
- Condition
- Clear
- Forecast updated
- Oct 16, 2021, 00:00 UTC
Launch media
Mission timeline
Follow the mission through its available trajectory data in the full 3D solar-system map.
- Now
Current mission status
Now
Operational or in flight at the GCAT cutoff
Spacecraft
Lucy
GCAT program: Discovery.
- GCAT ID
- S49328
- Manufacturer
- Lockheed Martin Space Systems (Denver), Astronautics Operations
- Launch mass
- 1,550 kg
- Propulsion
- LEROS 1c
- Dimensions
- 3.8 m long · 2.8 m diameter · 15.8 m span
Gallery
One image from Lucy.
3D model
- Source
- LUCY | NASA Space Probe
- Author
- murilo.kleine
- Usage
- CC BY 4.0
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