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Near-Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout)

July 26 , 2021 1347 days 1000 0
  • NASA has announced its next new spacecraft.
  • It is a small spacecraft which is not bigger than a big shoebox.
  • It is also known as Cubesat.
  • Its primary mission is to collect data from a near-Earth asteroid.
  • It is among one of several payloads that will hitch a ride on Artemis I.
  • This will be America’s first interplanetary mission that will be using special solar sail propulsion.
  • This spacecraft will take around two years to reach the targeted asteroid and
  • It will fly nearly 93 million miles away from the Earth to reach that asteroid.
  • Artemis I is a crew-less test flight of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft.
  • Under this programme, the NASA space agency has aimed to land the first woman on the Moon in the year 2024.

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