The asteroid Dinkinesh (left) and its satellite as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL
NASA’s Lucy probe to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids encountered a surprise last November as it flew by the main belt asteroid Dinkinesh during a test of its terminal tracking system. The tracking system is designed to keep the spacecraft’s cameras and other instrumentation pointed at their targets...
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