New space telescope could spot potentially hazardous asteroids heading for Earth

New space telescope could spot potentially hazardous asteroids heading for Earth.


A new space telescope that could spot potentially hazardous asteroids and comets heading for Earth is one step closer to reality.

The Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope, or NEO Surveyor, has been approved by NASA to move forward to the design phase. The 20-foot-long (6-meter-long) infrared telescope would bolster planetary defense by helping astronomers find asteroids and comets that come within 30 million miles (48 million kilometers) of Earth's orbit.

The mission's launch is currently scheduled for the first half of 2026.

"NEO Surveyor will have the capability to rapidly accelerate the rate at which NASA is able to discover asteroids and comets that could pose a hazard to the Earth, and it is being designed to discover 90 percent of asteroids 140 meters (459 feet) in size or larger within a decade of being launched," said Mike Kelley, NEO Surveyor program scientist at NASA Headquarters, in a statement.


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