NASA Pauses Attempts to Fix Lucy’s Pesky Solar Array
An illustration of the Lucy spacecraft with both of its circular solar arrays fully deployed.Illustration: Southwest Research InstituteNASA is taking a break from attempts to unfurl a finicky solar array on the Lucy spacecraft, claiming that the probe is too cold and that efforts at deploying the array could be more fruitful when Lucy is closer to the Sun in December 2024.After launching in October 2021, one of the spacecraft’s two 24-foot-wide (7-meter-wide) solar arrays, which supplies power to Lucy, failed to fully …