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The team behind NASA's Lucy mission to the Trojan asteroids continue to work through a glitch in one of the spacecraft's two massive solar arrays.
Engineers believe they have tracked the cause of a problem that prevented one of the two circular solar arrays on NASA’s Lucy asteroid probe from unfurling completely, according to mission Principal Investigator Hal Levison, with the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
NASA is debating whether to try to fix a jammed solar panel on its newly launched Lucy spacecraft, en route...
NASA's 12-year mission to study asteroids had barely begun when a solar panel got stuck.
NASA stated that the possibility of reopening the Solar wing to its extent, which is nearly 24 feet, would not happen until the mid of November.