
OHB, a German company states that they are looking into a redirect mission for asteroid 2024yr4. How would sucha thing be organized in practice? Can they just go for it by themselves?
https://www.ohb.de/en/news/asteroid-2024-yr4-ohb-experts-are-working-on-a-defense-mission
2024 yr4 asteroid redirect mission
byu/Initial-Tadpole1737 inspace

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They make payloads for paying customers, like the ESA. Then that customer pays someone to launch it. And then someone operates the payload during its mission.
So they’re studying the problem from the payload perspective, but don’t have the capability to go it alone.