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Asteroid belt
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3
Lagrangian point
habitat
Rulers
Asteroid(s)
Workers
Messengers
Workers
Workers
Earth
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X-ray worker
Messenger
Mag worker
IR
worker
Fig. 10.4.
NASA's autonomous nano technology swarm (ANTS) mission overview
Fig. 10.5.
ANTS encounter with an asteroid (image credit: NASA)
to form teams that explore particular asteroids. Approximately 80% of the
spacecraft would be workers that carry the specialized instruments to ob-
tain specific types of data. Examples of instruments include magnetometers
