{"id":11449,"date":"2021-10-29T07:50:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T07:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canadianpathram.com\/solar-wing-jammed-on-nasa-spacecraft-chasing-asteroids\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T07:51:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T07:51:23","slug":"photo-voltaic-wing-jammed-on-nasa-spacecraft-chasing-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadianpathram.com\/photo-voltaic-wing-jammed-on-nasa-spacecraft-chasing-asteroids\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo voltaic wing jammed on NASA spacecraft chasing asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>NASA is debating whether or not to attempt to repair a jammed photo voltaic panel on its newly launched Lucy spacecraft, en path to discover an unprecedented variety of asteroids.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The issue cropped up shortly after the spacecraft\u2019s October 16 liftoff on a 12-year journey.<\/p>\n<p>After measuring the electrical present this week, NASA reported Wednesday that certainly one of Lucy\u2019s two large, round photo voltaic panels is simply between 75 per cent and 95 per cent prolonged. A lanyard is holding it in place.<\/p>\n<p>Any try at reopening the wing \u2014 which is 24 ft in diameter \u2014 wouldn&#8217;t happen earlier than mid-November.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, the issue has not affected Lucy\u2019s outbound flight, so there\u2019s no rush to determine the subsequent step, officers stated. Every thing else on the spacecraft \u2014 already 3.7 million miles (6 million kilometers) away \u2014 is working correctly.<\/p>\n<p>The mission\u2019s lead scientist, Hal Levison of Southwest Analysis Institute, stated the workforce is inspired that the mixed energy from each photo voltaic panels \u201cis conserving the spacecraft wholesome and functioning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Designing Lucy\u2019s Path to the Trojan Asteroids\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k0e-z43kTOw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s too early to find out longer vary implications to the complete mission,\u201d Levison stated in an electronic mail Thursday. Whereas the issue is regarding, \u201cour workforce is working this very diligently and thoroughly to discover a workable resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The practically $1 billion mission seeks to discover seven so-called Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter\u2019s orbit across the solar and one other house rock nearer to dwelling. Lucy ought to swoop inside 600 miles (965 kilometers) of every goal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is debating whether or not to attempt to repair a jammed photo voltaic panel on its newly launched Lucy spacecraft, en path to discover an unprecedented variety of asteroids. The issue cropped up shortly after the spacecraft\u2019s October 16 liftoff on a 12-year journey. After measuring the electrical present this week, NASA reported Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2656],"tags":[6824,6820,107,4537,993,6819,6821,6822,6823],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2021\/10\/26c8c25ff95745eb84bb106e45091a52-26c8c25ff95745eb84bb106e45091a52-8bf37294c648471dbaefdd219c8c7223.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadianpathram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadianpathram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadianpathram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadianpathram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadianpathram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadianpathram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11452,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadianpathram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11449\/revisions\/11452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadianpathram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadianpathram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadianpathram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadianpathram.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}