The greater the robot's mass, the stronger is its gravitational
pull.
“We would go into this enhanced gravity tractor position after we
retrieve the boulder and demonstrate that we have even more gravity attraction
capability by doing that,” said Lindley Johnson, an executive for NASA's
Near-Earth Object (NEO) observations programme.
NASA officials are working on the details of the mission and have already identified about 12 candidates for the asteroid-capture mission. The best target for the asteroid-grab mission may be 'Itokawa' - a 1,750-foot-long space rock that was visited by Japan's Hayabusa probe in 2005, according to a Fox News report. The US space agency hopes to have a basic mission concept in place by the end of the year
NASA officials are working on the details of the mission and have already identified about 12 candidates for the asteroid-capture mission. The best target for the asteroid-grab mission may be 'Itokawa' - a 1,750-foot-long space rock that was visited by Japan's Hayabusa probe in 2005, according to a Fox News report. The US space agency hopes to have a basic mission concept in place by the end of the year
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