NASA’s recently launched Lucy spacecraft, the US space agency’s first- ever charge to explore distant asteroids and seek out the origin of our solar system, has faced some issues with one of it solar panels, the agency has said Lucy successfully lifted off on October 16) from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida in the US. But on Sunday, NASA blazoned that one of Lucy’s 24- bottom-wide solar panels may not be working well While the 12- time asteroid charge is safe and healthy, one of the two solar array isn’t be completely latched, NASA said in a statement.
NASA said the charge platoon is working on analysing the problem and will come up with coming way in the days ahead Lucy spacecraft systems show the spacecraft is operating well and is stable,”NASA added in a blogpost Meanwhile, it said all other system is working well and both of the solar arrays are producing power and charging the battery All other subsystems are normal. In the current spacecraft station, Lucy can continue to operate with no trouble to its health and safety. The platoon is analysing spacecraft data to understand the situation and determine coming way to achieve full deployment of the solar array,”the blogpost said.
Lucy’s solar panels are a pivotal part of the spacecraft’s ambitious charge to get scientists their first- ever over-close look at asteroids that circumvent in the same path as Jupiter, called the Trojans Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids are small bodies that are remnants of our early solar system, now trapped in stable routeways associated with, but not close to, the giant earth Jupiter These primitive bodies hold vital suggestions to decoding the history of the solar system.
Also, when Lucy is making its flybys, it’ll break the record for the furthest from the sun a spacecraft has run simply on solar power.The charge takes its name from the fossilised mortal ancestor ( called”Lucy”by her discoverers) whose shell handed unique sapience into humanity’s elaboration. IANS
