Earth’s Asteroid Hunter Is About to Die on the Job, New One Coming in 2027
4 Jul 2024, 07:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA will stop using the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer on July 31, telescope to crash into the atmosphere in a few month's time
NASA’s New Near-Earth Objects Tracker Will See Even the Sneakiest of Space Rocks
23 Dec 2022, 09:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The NEO Surveyor, the first telescope purpose-built to look for near-Earth objects, moves into final design-and-fabrication phase