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Cereal box-sized spacecraft could sample asteroids for mining potential

Andrew Topf | February 06, 2017 | 4:29 pm

It may not be necessary to fire a billion-dollar spacecraft into orbit in order to find out the potential of mining asteroids. Instead, tiny spacecraft no bigger than a cereal box could be launched  with the intention of intercepting potential mineral-bearing...