Lucy Spacecraft and Mission Operations Contract Embodies the Mission's Requirement to Design, Development…
A single federal award, with both ends of the trail linked.
Award NNG17FD73C is a contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to Lockheed Martin Corp, $352.8M obligated, FY2017 to FY2033, for Lucy Spacecraft and Mission Operations Contract Embodies the Mission's Requirement to Design…. The work is performed in Colorado. It is classified as NAICS 336414 (Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing) and PSC 1550 (Unmanned Aircraft). Source
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The Lucy Spacecraft and Mission Operations Contract Embodies the Mission's Requirement to Design, Development, Test, and Operate the Lucy Spacecraft Bus. Lucy Will Explore Six Jupiter Trojan Asteroids Trapped by Jupiters Gravity in Two Swarms That Share the Planets Orbit, One Leading and One Trailing Jupiter in Its 12-YEAR Circuit Around the Sun. The Trojans Are Thought to Be Relics of a Much Earlier Era in the History of the Solar System, and May Have Formed Far Beyond Jupiters Current Orbit.