SIMPLE DESIGN FOR RELIABILITY
The Near spacecraft couples a simple bus with redundancy and robust design margins. Designers believe that the approach gives high assurance that Near can fly three years and more than a billion miles and then perform precisely at an asteroid--while keeping total mission costs to about $210 million...
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