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Researchers just solved a 300-year-old math puzzle that could make spacecraft missions 20% more efficient. The breakthrough helps space agencies plan better routes when visiting multiple moving asteroids.
In 2029, private company ExLabs will make history by landing spacecraft on asteroid Apophis as it passes closer to Earth than our satellites. Multiple nations are sending missions to study this once-in-thousands-of-years event that will be visible to the naked eye.