Planetary Society offers $50,000 for asteroid tag mission design

The Planetary Society is offering a $50,000 prize for the best design for a mission to rendezvous with and "tag" a potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid. The objective of the Apophis Mission Design Competition will be to develop a concept to plant a tracking beacon on a 400-meter diameter...

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