If We Want to Visit More Asteroids, We Need to Let the Spacecraft Think for Themselves
- Mon 08 Apr 2024 04:22:PM
Missions to asteroids have been on a tear recently. Visits by Rosetta, Osirix-REX, and Hayabusa2 have all visited small bodies and, in some cases, successfully returned samples to the Earth. But as humanity starts reaching out to asteroids, it will run into a significant technical problem – bandwidth. There are tens of thousands of asteroids …
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