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NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterManufacturer
NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterLucy Mission
10/16/2021
NASA awarded the RLSP-35 Lucy launch contract to United Launch Alliance on 2019-01-31 at a total cost to the agency of $148,300,000.
Lucy is a Discovery-class mission selected by NASA in 2017 and is scheduled to launch in October 2021 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V.
Lucy is a nearly one-ton spacecraft that took 18 months to build at Lockheed Martin’s Littleton, Colorado facility.
Lucy is scheduled to launch in the predawn hours of 2021-10-16 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Aerojet Rocketdyne supplied the thrusters that placed NASA’s Lucy spacecraft on target for its 2023-11-01 flyby of Dinkinesh.