How NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission Could Work | Animation

Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - 14:31 in Astronomy & Space

A robotic mission will rendezvous with a target asteroid (referenced as '2008 EV5' in the video) and collect a boulder for later study. The spacecraft will also be used as an 'enhanced gravity tractor.'

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