The Near-Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout) was a mission by NASA to develop a controllable low-cost CubeSat solar sail spacecraft capable of encountering...
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Asteroid impact avoidance comprises the methods by which near-Earth objects (NEO) on a potential collision course with Earth could be diverted away, preventing...
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Potentially hazardous object (redirect from Potentially Hazardous Near-Earth Objects)
hazardous object (PHO) is a near-Earth object – either an asteroid or a comet – with an orbit that can make close approaches to the Earth and which is large enough...
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(Artemis 1) in November 2022 was set to use a solar sail: the Near-Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout). The CubeSat was declared lost when communications were...
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List of NASA missions (section Asteroids/comets)
September 2016, operational Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), launched November 2021, completed Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, launched November 2022, failed...
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Solar sail (section NEA Scout)
2019. It reentered the atmosphere on 17 November 2022. The Near-Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout) was a mission jointly developed by NASA's Marshall Space...
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List of Solar System probes (redirect from List of asteroid spaceflight missions)
Retrieved 15 January 2024. Jones, Andrew (10 August 2021). "China Plans Near-Earth Asteroid Smash-and-Grab". spectrum.ieee.org. Retrieved 10 August 2021. Zhang...
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lost. Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, designed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was a solar sail that would have flown by a near-Earth asteroid. Communications...
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1991 VG (category Earth co-orbital asteroids)
June 2017. The Near-Earth Asteroid Scout is a low-cost CubeSat solar sail spacecraft by NASA capable of encountering near-Earth asteroids and taking high...
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Hayabusa2 (redirect from Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout)
space with near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu on 27 June 2018. It surveyed the asteroid for a year and a half and took samples. It left the asteroid in November...
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