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 encompasses the methods by which near-Earth objects (NEO) on a potential collision course with Earth could be diverted away,...
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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)
October 2018. Krebs, Gunter Dirk (13 April 2015). "NEA-Scout". Retrieved 13 May 2015. "Asteroid explorer, Hayabusa2, reporter briefing" (PDF). JAXA. 15...
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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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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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Sentry (monitoring system) (redirect from Scout (NASA program))
the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It continually monitors the most up-to-date asteroid catalog for possibilities...
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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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2023 BU (category Near-Earth objects in 2023)
The asteroid is about 3–8 meters in diameter and approached Earth from the night sky. It is the fourth closest non-impacting approach known to Earth (excluding...
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Tunguska event (redirect from Tunguska asteroid impact over Siberia)
suggested that the near-Earth asteroid 2005 NB56 may be a possible candidate for the Tunguska object's parent body as the asteroid made a close approach...
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Artemis 1 mission Near-Earth Asteroid Scout by NASA was a solar sail spacecraft that was planned to encounter a near-Earth asteroid (mission failure)...
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Spaceguard (redirect from Near-Earth Object Program)
catalogue, and study near-Earth objects (NEO), especially those that may impact Earth (potentially hazardous objects). Asteroids are discovered by telescopes...
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Earth orbit in a vertical configuration while enclosed within the payload fairings of a rocket like a traditional satellite, but it returns to Earth via...
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in the Artemis 1 mission Near-Earth Asteroid Scout by NASA is a solar sail spacecraft that will encounter a near-Earth asteroid BioSentinel is an astrobiology...
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short descriptions of redirect targets List of missions to Venus Near-Earth Asteroid Scout – Solar sail spacecraft NanoSail-D2 – Satellite designed to test...
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OKEANOS (redirect from Jupiter and Trojan Asteroid Explorer)
NanoSail-D2 – Satellite designed to test concept of solar sails Near-Earth Asteroid Scout – Solar sail spacecraft Lunar Flashlight – Lunar orbiter by NASA...
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mission Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, was a solar sail spacecraft that was planned to encounter a near-Earth asteroid (mission...
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IceCube missions will hunt for signs of water ice on the moon, and Near-Earth Asteroid Scout will use a solar sail to rendezvous with a space rock. Northon...
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2019 MO (category Near-Earth objects in 2019)
designated A10eoM1, was a small, harmless 3-meter near-Earth asteroid discovered by ATLAS–MLO that impacted Earth's atmosphere on 22 June 2019 at 21:25 UT. The...
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Artemis 1 mission Near-Earth Asteroid Scout by NASA was a solar sail spacecraft that was planned to encounter a near-Earth asteroid (mission failure)...
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orbital station-keeping, by using a precise balance point in the gravities of Earth and the Moon that offers a stable trajectory. The main objective of the...
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IceCube missions will hunt for signs of water ice on the moon, and Near-Earth Asteroid Scout will use a solar sail to rendezvous with a space rock. Northon...
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Team Miles (2022–present) BioSentinel (2022–present) Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, will do an asteroid flyby (2022–present) On Apollos 8 and 10–17, each S-IVB...
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Artemis 1 mission Near-Earth Asteroid Scout by NASA was a solar sail spacecraft that was planned to encounter a near-Earth asteroid (mission failure)...
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Chicxulub crater (redirect from Chicxulub asteroid)
slightly over 66 million years ago when an asteroid, about ten kilometers (six miles) in diameter, struck Earth. The crater is estimated to be 200 kilometers...
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The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) is the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL's) facility for computing asteroid and comet orbits and their...
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NanoSail-D2 – Satellite designed to test concept of solar sails Near-Earth Asteroid Scout – Solar sail spacecraft Sunjammer (spacecraft) – NASA mission...
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