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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 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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    (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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    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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    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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    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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    suggested that the near-Earth asteroid 2005 NB56 may be a possible candidate for the parent body of the Tunguska object as the asteroid has made a close...
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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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    exploration of the Moon, numerous space missions have been undertaken to study Earth's natural satellite. Of the Moon landings, Luna 2 of the Soviet Union was...
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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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    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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    slightly over 66 million years ago when a large asteroid, about ten kilometers (six miles) in diameter, struck Earth. The crater is estimated to be 200 kilometers...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) is the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) center for computing asteroid and comet orbits and their probability...
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  • 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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    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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    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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    sail-propelled spacecraft include IKAROS, Nanosail-D2, and LightSail. Near-Earth Asteroid Scout is a planned light sail-propelled mission. For comparison, the...
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    NanoSail-D2, the successor to NanoSail-D, launched in November 2010 Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, a solar sail launched in 2022 OKEANOS, a large Japanese solar...
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    Spaceflight portal List of CubeSats Solar sail CubeSats LightSail-1 Near-Earth Asteroid Scout "NanoSail D". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 20 November 2010...
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    Hera (space mission) (category Missions to asteroids)
    Didymos binary asteroid system that was impacted by DART and contribute to validation of the kinetic impact method to deviate a near-Earth asteroid in a colliding...
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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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    south pole and near-Earth asteroid missions". Space News. Retrieved 5 August 2020. Jones, Andrew (11 April 2023). "China to target asteroid 2019 VL5 for...
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