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CU Boulder Team Named Finalist For NASA Mission
The team landed a coveted finalist spot in a new NASA program that will explore the solar system.
BOULDER, CO — A CU Boulder group has been named a finalist in a NASA program that will launch small satellites into space to explore the origins and evolution of the solar system.
The CU Boulder team has proposed a mission that will send two of the miniature craft to rendezvous with and study a target binary asteroid — a pair of asteroids that revolve around each other in close proximity.
The selected missions have a maximum budget of $55 million, and NASA plans to launch at least one of the three finalists into space.
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Daniel Scheeres, a professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, will lead the new mission, which is called Janus: Reconnaissance Missions to Binary Asteroids.
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Members of the CU Boulder team are also co-investigators on NASA's ongoing OSIRIS-REx mission to study the asteroid Bennu.
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