Launches/NEO Surveyor

NEO Surveyor

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SpaceX · Cape Canaveral SFS, United States · 2028-06-30 · 00:00:00 UTC

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Lift-off: 2028-06-30
Customers: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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Vehicle

Falcon 9 Block 5

Orbit

L1-point

Crewed

Mission

Space Situational Awareness

Operator

SpaceX

Mission Details

PayloadNEO Surveyor

Mission typeSpace Situational Awareness

Launch siteCape Canaveral SFS · Unknown Pad

OrbitL1-point

Operator agencySpaceX

CountryUnited States

Date2028-06-30

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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 b

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