The near-fully deployed array should 'successfully meet the mission’s needs.'
On Thursday , however, NASA officials stated the Lucy team managed to get the array to between 353 degrees and 357 degrees open.
."The mission team is increasingly confident the solar array will successfully meet the mission’s needs in its current tensioned and stabilized state."
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