Comet Hitchhiker – NASA

Although successful, Rosetta mission caused scientists spent more than 10 years on building the spacecraft and its probe, and 1 billion euros costs. That motivates them to invent a new way for future operations that will be less demanding and cost less. Namely, they have developed an idea of hitchhiker spacecraft that will explore comets and asteroids by using kinetic energy.

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