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Lucy Orbit Towards Trojan Asteroids
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Courtesy of NASA/Southwest Research Institute
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With the successful completion of NASA’s critical design review, the SwRI-led Lucy mission is on track to launch in 2021 to explore the enigmatic Trojan asteroids, an ancient population of objects that orbit in tandem with Jupiter.