NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide launch services for a close-ethical object (NEO) surveyor mission, which will detect and inspect asteroids and comets which will potentially an effect for Earth Can pose a threat.
Firm Fix Fixed Price Launch Service Task Order is being provided under indefinite distribution/uncertain amount of NASA Launch Services II contract. The total cost of NASA for launch service is around $ 100 million, including launch service and other mission related costs. The NEO Surveyor Mission has been targeted to launch before September 2027 on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida.
The NEO surveyor mission includes a single scientific equipment: approximately 20-inch (50-gram) diameter binoculars that will operate in two heat-sensing infrared wavelengths. It will be able to detect both bright and dark asteroids, later the most difficult type of searching with existing assets. Space telescope is designed to help NASA’s planetary defense efforts forward, finding and specializing most of the possible dangerous asteroids and comets that occur within 30 million miles of the Earth’s orbit. These are collectively known as close-earth objects, or NEOs.
The mission will conduct a five-year baseline survey to find at least two-thirds of unknown NEOs less than 140 meters (460 ft). These are the objects that cause major regional damage in the event of Earth’s influence. By using two heat-sensitive infrared imaging channels, the telescope can also measure more accurate measurements of NEO sizes and get information about their composition, size, rotational states and classrooms.
The mission is assigned by NASA’s Planetary Science Division within the Agency’s Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters in Washington. The program is provided by the Oversite NASA’s planetary defense coordination office, which was established in 2016 to manage the efforts in protecting the planet. Huntsville provides program management for NASA’s Planetary Mission Program Office, NEO Surveyor at the agency’s martial space flight center in Alabama. The project is being developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
Many aerospace and engineering companies are contracted to manufacture spacecraft and its instruments including BAE Systems SMS (Space and Mission Systems), Space Dynamics Laboratory and Telendine. The University of Colorado will support the laboratory for atmospheric and space physics at Boulder, and is responsible for the production of Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, survey data and missions at California, California, California, California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Data Products. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. The University of California, led by the Mission Team, includes Los Angeles. NASA’s launch service program at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is responsible for the management of the launch service.
For more information about NEO surveyor, see:
https://science.nasa.gov/Mmission/neo-surveyor/
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Tieren Doyle / Joshua Finch
Headquarters, Washington
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