NASA is gearing up to assemble the next generation of asteroid-hunting spacecraft, with plans for a space telescope designed to scour the solar system for stray asteroids and comets that have managed to evade our most sensitive Earth-based telescopes and planetary defense measures.
The Near-Earth Object Surveyor, or NEO Surveyor, will be “the first purpose-built space telescope that will advance NASA’s planetary defense efforts by finding and tracking hazardous near-Earth objects,” according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
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