Tiny NEA Scout Solar Sail Mission to Chase Asteroid

NEA Scout
NEA Scout: a mission to a small near-Earth Asteroid. Credit: NASA-JPL

NEA Scout will hitch a ride to an asteroid on the Artemis 1 Moon mission.

Tucked away on the long-awaited, historic launch of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) this April is a small, shoebox-sized mission mission that with use an innovative solar sail technology, to chase down a school-bus sized asteroid.

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