The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is participating in the Lucy mission.
The main goal of the Lucy mission is to study asteroids located in the Lagrange points L4 and L5 near Jupiter.
The total cost of NASA’s Lucy mission, including launch and operations, is nearly $1,000,000,000.
The Lucy mission will perform a series of maneuvers starting in May to change the spacecraft’s trajectory so it will pass 450 km from asteroid 1999 VD57.
NASA added the small main-belt asteroid 1999 VD57 to the Lucy mission’s flyby schedule on 2023-01-25, with a planned flyby date of 2022-11-01 of the same year.
NASA selected Psyche in January 2017 as one of two Discovery-class planetary science missions alongside the Lucy mission.
NASA's Lucy mission launched on 2021-10-16.
United Launch Alliance had launched 146 times with 100 percent mission success prior to the Lucy mission.
The United Launch Alliance Centaur stage for the Lucy mission was lifted into the Vertical Integration Facility near Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on 2021-09-16.
The Lucy mission has a budget of $981,000,000 and is part of NASA’s Discovery program.
The decision to remove Starliner from the Atlas V creates an extended delay for OFT-2 that will require waiting until after the mid-October launch of NASA’s Lucy mission on another Atlas V, the SpaceX Crew-3 launch at the end of October, and the return of the Crew-2 spacecraft to free the docking port.
NASA plans to launch the Lucy mission in October 2021 as the first mission to visit Jupiter Trojans.
NASA awarded United Launch Alliance a contract in January 2019 to launch the Lucy mission on an Atlas V in October 2021 valued at $148,300,000.
United Launch Alliance provided schedule assurance intended to meet the Lucy mission’s requirement to launch in a 20-day window.
SpaceX estimated it could have launched the Lucy mission for significantly less than the $148,300,000 value of ULA’s contract.
The United Launch Alliance contract for the Lucy mission had a value of $148,300,000.
NASA awarded the RLSP-35 launch contract to United Launch Alliance on 2020-01-31 for the Lucy mission.
The Lucy mission has a launch window of about 20 days in October 2021 to reach its targeted Trojan asteroid flybys.
NASA issued a stop work order on the Lucy mission on 2019-02-13 after a protest of the contract award was filed with the Government Accountability Office.
NASA will use an Atlas V 401 from United Launch Alliance to launch the Lucy mission in October 2021 from Florida.