‘NEA Scout’: NASA’s Solar Sail Asteroid Mission
Recently, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) informed that its new spacecraft - Near-Earth Asteroid Scout or NEA Scout - has completed all necessary tests and is safely tucked inside the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.
NEA Scout
- NEA Scout is a miniaturized spacecraft, known as a CubeSat, developed under NASA’s Advanced Exploration Systems (AES) Programme.
- NASA selected NEA Scout as a secondary payload on Artemis I - the first integrated, uncrewed flight test of the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, scheduled for November, 2021.
- Artemis- I is the first in a series of increasingly complex missions that will enable human ....
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