The spacecraft is 4.7 million miles away from Dinkinesh, but still has another 16 million miles to travel before their rendezvous.
The Lucy spacecraft is on a 12-year journey to visit eight different asteroids, and it’s almost caught up with the first space rock on its checklist. Since it launched in October 2021, NASA’s Lucy mission has trekked through over 33 million miles in space. The spacecraft is now 4.7 million miles away from its first target, a small asteroid named Dinikinesh.
The team will have another opportunity to adjust the spacecraft’s trajectory in October if needed. Lucy went through a brief communications blackout from October 6 until mid-October as the spacecraft passed behind the Sun as viewed from Earth. During that time, the mission was still diligently capturing images of the asteroid, which will be sent to Earth once communication with Lucy is reestablished. Dinikinesh is a tiny space rock in the main asteroid belt, only about a half-mile wide .
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