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How did you come up with the idea?

'We realised that one of the most difficult problems was how you would attach something to the surface of an asteroid which has very low gravity, and whose surface we don't understand very well. And that's when we came up with the idea that maybe you don't really need to attach to it at all, but that you could just tow it using the force of gravity between the spacecraft and the asteroid.'



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    Image: Dan Durda, FIAAA / B612 Foundation
 

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