{"id":130162,"date":"2021-11-07T06:23:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T14:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/nasa-lucy-spacecraft-update-instruments-powering-on-and-working-normally"},"modified":"2021-11-07T06:23:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T14:23:42","slug":"nasa-lucy-spacecraft-update-instruments-powering-on-and-working-normally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/nasa-lucy-spacecraft-update-instruments-powering-on-and-working-normally","title":{"rendered":"NASA Lucy Spacecraft Update: Instruments Powering On and Working Normally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-lucy-spacecraft-update-instruments-powering-on-and-working-normally.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Lucy spacecraft continues to operate in cruise mode \u2013 the standard mode for outbound orbit. The team has begun turning on instruments. <a href=\"http:\/\/lucy.swri.edu\/instruments\/LTES.html\">L\u2019TES<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/lucy.swri.edu\/instruments\/LRalph.html\">L\u2019Ralph<\/a> have been powered on and are working normally. Turning on <a href=\"http:\/\/lucy.swri.edu\/instruments\/LLORRI.html\">L\u2019LORRI<\/a> is scheduled for November 8 2021. Other than the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/nasa-lucy-team-postpones-some-operations-as-they-remain-focused-on-solar-array-glitch\/\">solar array<\/a>, all subsystems continue to work normally.<\/p>\n<p>The joint Anomaly Response Team has been studying the array using an engineering model. Initial tests indicate that the lanyard that pulls out the solar array may not have completed the process successfully; however, it is still uncertain what caused this condition. The team is conducting more tests to determine if this is indeed the case, and what the root cause might be.<\/p>\n<p>An attempt to characterize the array deployment by attempting to move it would occur no earlier than November 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lucy spacecraft continues to operate in cruise mode \u2013 the standard mode for outbound orbit. The team has begun turning on instruments. L\u2019TES and L\u2019Ralph have been powered on and are working normally. Turning on L\u2019LORRI is scheduled for November 8 2021. Other than the solar array, all subsystems continue to work normally. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}