NEO Surveyor

Near-Earth Object Surveyor Space Telescope

future Mission

Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor is the first space telescope specifically designed to hunt asteroids and comets that may be potential hazards to Earth.

Type

Space Telescope

Launch

June 2028 (Proposed)

Target

Asteroids, Comets

Objective

Hunt asteroids and comets that may be potential hazards to Earth

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Hubble Goes Hunting for Small Main Belt Asteroids

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the barred spiral galaxy UGC 12158. The majestic galaxy has a pinwheel shape made up of bright blue stars wound around a yellow-white hub of central stars. The hub has a slash of stars across it, called a bar. The galaxy is tilted face-on to our view from Earth. A slightly s-shaped white line across the top is a Hubble image is of an asteroid streaking across Hubble's view. It looks dashed because the image is a combination of several exposures of the asteroid flying by like a race car.

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NASA’s NEOWISE Extends Legacy With Decade of Near-Earth Object Data

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Awarded Collier Trophy

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NASA Study: Asteroid’s Orbit, Shape Changed After DART Impact

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NASA’s Planetary Radar Images Slowly Spinning Asteroid

Article2 months ago

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