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Engineers investigating iffy solar array latch on NASA's Lucy as probe begins long journey to Trojan asteroids

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>>I am curious though as space is a vacuum so no wind to shift the array.

so you have never heard of Solar Sails then? Plenty (for specific values of plenty) of wind in space.... just not a mixture of O2/N2/CO2 (plus impurities) like we have here on the pale blue dot.

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