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NASA’s Asteroid Retrieval Mission May Lack a Viable Target

NASA’s Asteroid Retrieval Mission May Lack a Viable Target

A Future in Space Operations presentation earlier this week by Dan Adamo, which can be found here, highlights a potential serious problem with NASA’s proposed asteroid capture mission.  The presentation focuses on a “V” plot  which shows a range of Near Earth Asteroids grouped into three different classes by their orbital characteristics.  Some NEAs falling within […]

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