🔬 Science May 19, 2026 · Keith Cooper

Scientists just solved a tricky asteroid-hopping spacecraft riddle

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Scientists just solved a tricky asteroid-hopping spacecraft riddle
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Plotting the optimal trajectory to visit multiple asteroids is a fiendishly difficult take on the Traveling Salesperson problem, but a new mathematical approach has succeeded in solving it.

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