Lucy, Discovery Mission 13 - a grand tour of the Jupiter Trojans |
Lucy, Discovery Mission 13 - a grand tour of the Jupiter Trojans |
Jan 4 2017, 08:20 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 71 Joined: 12-December 16 Member No.: 8089 |
Obligatory new thread for the Lucy mission, now that it has been selected by NASA to launch as Discovery mission 13! Lucy will launch in 2021, and will perform a flyby of a main belt asteroid in 2025, before making flybys of at least six Jupiter trojans from 2027 to 2033. The mission, led by the Southwest Research Institute and Principal Investigator Harold F. Levison, will send a spacecraft carrying updated versions of New Horizons' LORRI and RALPH instruments.
Be sure to check out r/lucymission on reddit as well! EDIT: I have made a mistake. Could a kind mod please move this thread to the "Cometary and Asteroid Missions" subforum? ADMIN: Done. Note for the new members: Generally speaking, please consult a member of the admin/mod team before creating new topics. Not a hard rule, but it does help to keep the place tidy. Also, we encourage all members to review this welcome post for orientation purposes. Thanks! |
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Oct 15 2022, 08:31 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 648 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Subotica Member No.: 384 |
Does anybody know when do we get the first images from Earth's gravity assist?
This should be a great test of what those cameras can do. Can Lucy take better image sequences than Galileo or Messenger spacecraft during this flyby? -------------------- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Jules H. Poincare My "Astrophotos" gallery on flickr... |
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Oct 15 2022, 03:48 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2542 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
Does anybody know when do we get the first images from Earth's gravity assist? Speculation as we have no operational role in this mission -- DSN Now shows 20 kbit/s down, most likely on the LGA/MGA due to spacecraft orientation. I doubt if we will see anything until after the flyby is complete and they can send the data back at a higher rate. It took about 2 months before the 14 Feb 2022 star images were released ( https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/c...lucy-spacecraft ) but hopefully some flyby images will show up more quickly. -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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Oct 16 2022, 04:29 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 706 Joined: 3-December 04 From: Boulder, Colorado, USA Member No.: 117 |
We'll be imaging the Earth and Moon a few times during the flyby, but no Galileo-style color movies- the science cameras are rather limited in what they can do at 1 AU, due to overexposure. We're hoping for some nice images of the Moon after Earth closest approach, however.
I'm hoping to see the spacecraft itself with binoculars on Sunday morning, from Western Nebraska where we've come to avoid clouds in Colorado. It should be much brighter from north-west Australia, just before closest approach, for anyone in that part of the world. See http://lucy.swri.edu/SpotTheSpacecraft-EGA1.html John |
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