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Grounded spacecraft look for new targets, including asteroid Apophis

Scientists are working hard to try to salvage a pair of spacecraft that lost their launch — and the solution might include the most notorious asteroid out there, Apophis.

NASA’s Janus mission was designed to send two spacecraft past two binary asteroids, giving scientists their first close look at this category of object. The mission, which was meant to cost no more than $55 million, was due to launch between August and October 2022 with the Psyche mission that will explore a metal-rich asteroid. But Psyche wasn’t ready to launch last year and will instead launch this October — leaving the Janus team’s two perfectly good spacecraft grounded.

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