If it gets the go-ahead, the Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM) will be the first spacecraft to visit a binary asteroid system and ESA’s first mission to a small body since Rosetta landed on a comet. With its micro lander and accompanying flock of ...
... (MMX) mission and the Coordination Lead on NASA’s DART mission. Asteroid 6899 Nancychabot is named in her honour. Sean Blair is a journalist and editor for the European Space Agency website. He studied at the University of St Andrews, Scotland...