NASA Lucy Mission

• NASA is set to launch Lucy, the first spacecraft to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids on October 16, 2021. 
• The Lucy spacecraft is scheduled to be launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. 
• NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016 but the Lucy spacecraft will be the first expedition by NASA to study the Trojan asteroids that orbit the Sun in two swarms, one leading ahead of Jupiter and other trailing behind the planet.