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Scientists just solved a tricky asteroid-hopping spacecraft riddle

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May 19, 2026 • 226 views
Original source: Space.com
Scientists just solved a tricky asteroid-hopping spacecraft riddle

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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