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Falcon 9 Block 5 | NEO Surveyor

SpaceXUnknown Pad — Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

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mission

Name
NEO Surveyor
Type
Space Situational Awareness
Target orbit
Heliocentric L1 (L1-point)

NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission is designed to help advance planetary defense efforts to discover and characterize most of the potentially hazardous asteroids and comets that come within 30 million miles of Earth’s orbit. These are collectively known as near-earth objects, or NEOs. NEO Surveyor consists of a single scientific instrument: a 50 centimeter (nearly 20 inch) diameter telescope that operates in two heat-sensing infrared wavelengths. It will be capable of detecting both bright and dark asteroids, which are the most difficult type to find.

schedule

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vehicle & provider

Rocket
Falcon 9 Block 5
Family
Falcon
Variant
Block 5
Provider
SpaceX
Type
Commercial
Country
USA

launch site

Pad
Unknown Pad
Location
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Country
USA
Timezone
America/New_York