NASA's NEO Surveyor Infrared Telescope for Asteroid Detection Enters Integration and Testing Phase
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Summary
NASA's NEO Surveyor, the agency's first infrared space telescope designed specifically to detect potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids and comets, is currently in the integration and testing phase. The mission is scheduled for launch no earlier than September 2027, with teams across the US working on spacecraft components, survey planning, science objectives, and data processing software. This mission stems from a 2005 Congressional mandate for NASA to discover potentially hazardous near-Earth objects.
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· 3 pulledThe Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor — NASA's first infrared space telescope purposely designed to discover potentially hazardous asteroids and comets — is undergoing integration and testing.
With launch set for no earlier than September 2027, teams across the United States are hard at work building the spacecraft's components.
In 2005, Congress tasked NASA with discovering potentially hazardous near-Earth objects, or NEOs.
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