Engineers designing ESA’s Hera planetary defence mission to the Didymos asteroid pair are developing advanced technology to let the spacecraft steer itself through space, taking a similar approach to self-driving cars.
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Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-04-self-driving-spacecraft-planetary-defence.html