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Lucy Separates from the Centaur Upper Stage – Lucy Mission

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Date: 2021-10-16 00:00:00

We have spacecraft separation! Cheers and applause can be heard from the launch teams as the Lucy spacecraft separates from the United Launch Alliance Atlas V Centaur upper stage to fly freely for the first time. In just a few minutes, the spacecraft’s solar arrays will deploy.

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[1] Url: https://blogs.nasa.gov/lucy/2021/10/16/lucy-separates-from-the-centaur-upper-stage/

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