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A Day in the Life of Lucy - November 2019

Dec 09, 2019
Lucy Project Manager, Donya Douglas-Bradshaw (left), and Deputy PI, Cathy Olkin (right), viewing the pathfinder for the solar array at the manufacturing readiness review in SolAero in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Jessica Thompson, the lead Lucy Systems Engineer, in her office at Goddard Spaceflight Center.
Lucy Co-Is Dan Britt and Josh Emery at the Hyabusa2 + OSIRIS-REx science meeting learning the latest results on primitive asteroids.
Andrew Holmes (ASU) inspecting LTES Enclosure to make sure it meets specifications.
Science Team Co-Investigator Richard Binzel (MIT) beginning the track of PhD studies for grandson Edward Nelson Binzel.
Jack Jewell, Jeff Regester, and David Vestal get out the telescope to do a dress rehearsal of the Orus Occultation.
Helen Carson from University of Washington, Fernanda Ramirez from Santa Ana College, Kayla Schang from Macalester College, Miriam De Soto from Cal State Fullerton, Andres Campbell from Minnesota State University, and Kristen English from University of Missouri. The picture is some of The Explorers of Tomorrow, a L'SPACE organization, having a weekly team meeting that discusses the Dust Devils project.
Greg Mathis (ASU) checking out LTES Control Board mates and board before powering up.
Hal Levison supervises as Tim Holt and Brian Keeney get telescopes ready to observed the occultation.
The Lucy Occultation team on the beach in Northern Australia preparing to observe Orus passing in front of a star, occulting it.
Bill O'Donnell (ASU) inspecting Beamsplitter Assembly to make sure all the bonds are in place.
The Lucy Occultation team has dinner before heading out to prepare for the observations.
Julien Salmon during a dress rehearsal for the Orus occultation.
Russ Gehling viewing the pathfinder solar array at the Manufacturing Readiness Review at SolAero in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Mike Sekerak (GSFC), Deputy Systems/00 Engineer, getting ready for another telecon.
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Ashley Flores keeping track of Lucy costs at Southwest Research Institute.
Unfortunately there was rain the night of the occultation. David Vestal protects their telescopes as they hope for a break in the clouds.
Rob Woodward (ASU) checking the LTES Thermistors before putting them in the oven for curing.
L’LORRI team (from left to right Shaughn London, Shaun Begley, John Wilson, Hugo Darlington, Ryan Hacal, Hal Weaver, Graham Murphy, Steve Conrad, Jim Burgum, Howard Taylor, during the weekly status meeting at APL
The avionics team takes at themselves in Infrared at Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colorado.
Bill O'Donnell (ASU) testing the LTES Moving Mirror Assembly.
The avionics team tests the avionics box at Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colorado.
Colby Goodloe, the Lucy Spacecraft Systems Lead, in his office at Goddard Spaceflight Center.
Following the Lucy team's successful completion of the Critical Design Review, the GSFC Systems team held a celebratory breakfast! Pictured (left to right): Scott Starin, Colby Goodloe, Mark Woodard, Fran Wasiak, Jessica Thompson, Mike Sekerak, Jose Tillard.
Alekey Luzhin (GSFC) bonding the final end fitting on the LEISA Detector Thermal Isolators for the flight unit.
Juan Rodriguez from NASA GSFC of the L'Ralph team holds the coated LEISA flight radiator, which is used to cool down the LEISA detector down to -280 F.
Katherine Kretke working on a blog post for the Lucy Website at Southwest Research Institute.
L'SPACE student Jaime Crouse (University of Missouri, Kansas City) visiting the Marshall Space Flight Center.
Kristina Peaver, a Lucy Validation and Verification engineer, at her office in Goddard Spaceflight Center
Moataz Dahabra does a STL-1 Harness Checkout at Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colorado.
Mike Sekerak, Deputy Systems Engineer, making a presentation in his office at Goddard Spaceflight Center.
L'SPACE student Lance Belobrajdic on the left and Ryan Petre on the right at the Blue Lagoon Lake in Huntsville, Tx as part of the Texas A&M University Dive Club. As an oceanographer in training, it is important maintain diving abilities to collect data/chemistry/biology samples for research.
L'Ralph flight electronics box undergoing testing at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio
L'SPACE student Alejandro Rincon stands next to Jordan Gilbertson, Dan Huynh, and Michael Evangelista during one of their rocket builds at the University of Texas at Austin.
Starting to build the Lucy Instruments. If you can read this, you assembled LEISA correctly.
Cametria Weatherspoon and Eric Corson carry out STL-1 Integration at Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colorado.
'The L'Ralph Weekly Integration and Testing Planning Meeting at Goddard Space Flight Center.'
L'SPACE student Sable Hunt in in the lab working with circuits and computer programs at the University of Denver. She first learned how to build circuits and computer programs at the L'SPACE internship she attended in the summer of 2019 at ASU, Tempe, AZ.
Amy Simon (L'Ralph DPI) with the ground equipment that will be used to test and calibrate the L'Ralph instrument in the thermal vacuum chamber at Goddard Space Flight Center. Thermal vacuum testing simulates the conditions the instrument will experience in flight.
Rob Woodward (ASU) looking at the LTES Thermistors after their oven cure.
The weekly Lucy Science Operations Center meeting to discuss the flow of bits: uplink (planning and sequencing observations) and downlink (processing and distributing the data). From left to right: Cathy Olkin (SwRI), Anthony Egan (SwRI), Zach Talpas (Stellar Solutions), Jon Pineau (Stellar Solutions), Emma Birath (SwRI).
Van Phan, of L3 Harris SSG, attaching heaters to the optical telescope assembly bulkhead.
L'SPACE student Lance Belobrajdic in the Atmospheric Sciences Department Radar Room in the College of Geosciences configuring a CRX-1000 Data logger for the Texas A&M University Research Farm Mesonet Weather Station.
Lucy Scheduler Jim Rogers (GSFC) showing where Lucy is on the master schedule. Schedule is king.