A ULA Atlas V 401 launched NASA's Lucy spacecraft on a 12-year mission to fly by one Main Belt asteroid and eight Jupiter Trojan asteroids, the first mission to explore these primordial bodies clustered near Jupiter's orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T
- Flight
- 40th
- of 41 Atlas V 401 flights
- Date and time
- 16 October 2021, 09:34 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 401
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 2021-093
- Launches in 2021
- 101st of 146
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
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