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Sailing to an Asteroid on the Light of the Sun

Published: Oct. 24, 2018, 3 p.m.

b'LightSail 2 is not the only solar sail in the universe. NASA\\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center and the Jet Propulsion Lab are preparing to send NEA Scout on a long, light-propelled journey to a near Earth asteroid.\\xa0 Principal Investigator Les Johnson shares his excitement about this interplanetary cubesat. Emily Lakdawalla reports in from southern France following the successful start of the BepiColombo mission to Mercury.\\xa0 Don\\u2019t know a primorial from a primordial? No worries.\\xa0 Bruce Betts will throw both into the soup as he ladles out a new space trivia contest. Learn more at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/1024-2018-les-johnson-nea-scout.html'