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    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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    (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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    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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    September 2016, operational Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), launched November 2021, completed Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, launched November 2022, failed...
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    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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    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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    It continually monitors the most up-to-date asteroid catalog for possibilities of future impact with Earth over the next 100+ years. Whenever a potential...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    47 minutes later at a distance around 970 kilometres (600 mi) away from Earth. Inside the spacecraft were payloads from the Emirates Lunar Mission rover...
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    Kosmos 2553 (category Communications satellites in low Earth orbit)
    2553 orbits the Earth with the following parameters: NORAD ID: 51511 International Designator: 2022-011A Perigee (closest point to Earth): 1,999.8 km Apogee...
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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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  • BioSentinel, CuSP, EQUULEUS, LunaH-Map, Lunar IceCube, LunIR, Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, OMOTENASHI, Team Miles) Eutelsat 10B EOS-06 / Oceansat-3, Astrocast...
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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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    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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    2023 CX1 (category Apollo asteroids)
    impacted, 2023 CX1 was a near-Earth asteroid on an Earth-crossing Apollo-type orbit. During a routine search for near-Earth objects with his 0.6-metre...
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