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- ExLabs, a Long Beach-based company, is developing a spacecraft to study Apophis and plans an April 2028 launch.
- The autonomous mission will collect data on Apophis's composition and origin as it approaches Earth for 3 to 5 years.
- Funding for the mission comes from various U.S. government agencies.
- James Orsulak, ExLabs co-founder, notes the need for asteroid-deflection strategies, citing the dinosaur extinction event.
