Discovery stage for mission to asteroid

Target Asteroid Apophis https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/nhats/details.html#?des=65679
This asteroid is a near earth asteroid (NEA) that has one of the lowest Delta-Vs.
The Delta-V to get there from low earth orbit is 4.764 km/s.
is it possible to design a 6u cubesat to get there with a small ion thruster?
Time for discovery!



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