Lucy

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

09:34:00

Saturday October 16, 2021

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Lucy

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Lucy is a NASA space probe that will tour five Jupiter trojans, asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit around the Sun, orbiting either ahead of or behind the planet. All will be fly-by missions. Three instruments comprise the payload: a high-resolution visible imager, an optical and near-infrared imaging spectrometer, and a thermal infrared spectrometer.

Heliocentric Orbit

1 Payload

1,550 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Atlas V 401

Active 2002 to 2022

United Launch Alliance logo

Agency

ULA

Price

$109.00 million

Rocket

Diameter: 3.81m

Height: 58.3m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 9,797 kg

GTO: 4,750 kg

Liftoff Thrust

3,826 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 4.2m

Height: 13.8m

Stages

2

Launch Site

SLC-41

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

15 days 22 hours

Stats

Atlas V


89th

Mission

3rd

Mission of 2021

United Launch Alliance


146th

Mission

4th

Mission of 2021

2021


99th

Orbital launch attempt