asteroid hunter, nasa, neo surveyor, new discoveries

Construction Begins on NASA’s Next Generation of Asteroid Hunter

A space telescope designed to search for the hardest-to-find asteroids and comets that stray into Earth’s orbital neighborhood, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor (NEO Surveyor) recently passed a rigorous technical and programmatic review. Now, the mission is transitioning into the final design-and-fabrication phase and establishing its technical, cost, and schedule baseline. The mission supports the objectives of ...

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Nasa's NEO Surveyor satellite.