Work Is Under Way on NASA’s Next-Generation Asteroid Hunter - NASA
The mirrors for NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other spacecraft components is accelerating. NASA’s new asteroid-hunting spacecraft is...
- comets
- jet propulsion laboratory
- near-earth asteroid (nea)
- neo surveyor (near-earth object surveyor space telescope)
- planetary defense
Source: NASA
The mirrors for NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other spacecraft components is accelerating. NASA’s new asteroid-hunting spacecraft is taking shape at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Called NEO Surveyor (Near-Earth Object Surveyor), this cutting-edge infrared space telescope will seek out the hardest-to-find asteroids and […]