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Scheduled for launch in October 2020 NASA's Lucy's Mission will visit several of Jupter's Trojan asteroids over a span of 12 years. The Trojan's vary considerably suggesting they did not all form along with Jupiter. Better understand their compositions will provide data to help understand the evolution of the Solar System.

NASA is preparing (2021) to launch a probed named LUCY to explore Jupiter's Greek asteroids surrounding it's L4 Lagrange Point and a binary Trojan asteroid near Jupiter's L5 Lagrange Point. First contact will be a main belt asteroid in 2025.

Shortly after launch NASA's LUCY probe, destined to explore several Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, failed to fully open one of its solar arrays. Patiently over several months NASA engineers performed a remote repair. Then, upon discovering a satellite of one of the target asteroids, expanded LUCY's mission scope.

Updates on NASA's X-59, Artemis, ACERO, LUCY missions.