“NASA’s Lucy mission is safe and stable,” he said.
“The two solar arrays have deployed, but one may not be fully latched.
The team is analyzing data to determine next steps.
This team has overcome many challenges already and I am confident they will prevail here as well.”
The solar panels were successfully deployed 91 minutes after launch.
Now it’s just a matter of getting the second one to latch properly.
These Trojan asteroids move as huge swarms, or camps, at the Lagrangian points in Jupiter’s orbit.
