Leaders of the Lucy asteroid mission
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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The Luck Before Patroclus and Menetius
There was a lot of luck in getting this amazing set of diverse trojan asteroids. The flight dynamics team has been spending a lot of server time over the past four and a half years to be able to find tunit. Earth gravisis five deep space manoeuvres, over 30 trajectory correction manoeuvrs,. In order to thread the needle to do these fly bys at just the right distances.
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