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SSL to provide design work for NASA JPL asteroid mission

Submit on Friday, February 26th, 2016 22:57

Space Systems Loral (SSL) has received a contract from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to conduct first phase design studies for a spacecraft that can travel to an asteroid, remove a boulder, and redirect it into a lunar orbit to prepare it for a visit by astronauts in the 2020’s.

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