The creation begins to evolve into NASA's next-generation Asteroid Hunter.

NEO Surveyor is the first purpose-built space telescope that will strengthen NASA's planetary protection efforts with the help of finding and tracking

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A space telescope designed to search for the hardest-to-locate asteroids and comets that stray into Earth's orbital neighborhood,

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NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor (NEO Surveyor) has now passed a rigorous technical and programmatic description

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Now, the company is transitioning into the final section of design and manufacturing and is setting up its technical, value and schedule

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The project supports the goals of NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination (p.C.) Office at NASA Headquarters in Washington

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The NASA Authorization Act of 2005 directed NASA to find and pinpoint at least ninety percent of near-Earth devices greater than

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Devices of this length are capable of dealing full-size close-in damage, or worse, if they affect Earth.

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“NEO Surveyor represents the next generation of NASA's ability to rapidly detect, track, and characterize potentially hazardous

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