The NASA Lucy mission to the Trojan asteroids is expected to launch Oct. 16. Unique to this mission are the multiple ways that ASU is involved: The spacecraft is named in honor of the “Lucy” fossil discovered in 1974 by ASU's Donald Johanson; onboard is an ASU-led instrument; and watching the launch will be thousands of students who have attended the ASU-led “L’SPACE” Academy.
July 20, 2021
The ASU-led team that built NASA’s Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper, or “LunaH-Map” for short, has safely delivered their spacecraft to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for a launch expected later this year on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Artemis I rocket.
LunaH-Map is a fully functional interplanetary spacecraft about the size of a large cereal box and weighing about 30 pounds. It is the first mission to be led, designed, assembled, integrated, tested and delivered from the ASU Tempe campus. Its destination is in orbit around the moon, from which it will map water-ice in permanently shadowed regions of the lunar south pole.
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