Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor – Falcon 9 – TBD – сентябрь 2027

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https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7788

Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor
Launch Time
NET September, 2027
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Rocket  Falcon 9 Block 5
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Mission Details
Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor
The NEO Surveyor mission consists of a single scientific instrument: an almost 20-inch (50-centimeter) diameter telescope that will operate in two heat-sensing infrared wavelengths. It will be capable of detecting both bright and dark asteroids, the latter being the most difficult type to find with existing assets. The space telescope is designed to help advance NASA's 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.

The mission will conduct a five-year baseline survey to find at least two-thirds of the unknown NEOs larger than 140 meters (460 feet). These are the objects large enough to cause major regional damage in the event of an Earth impact. By using two heat-sensitive infrared imaging channels, the telescope can also make more accurate measurements of the sizes of NEOs and gain information about their composition, shapes, rotational states, and orbits.
Payloads: 1

Location
SLC-40 or LC-39A, Florida, USA

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https://x.com/NASA_LSP/status/1893072494103613699

NASA's Launch Services Program  @NASA_LSP
NASA has selected @SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket to launch NEO Surveyor!
NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission is a planetary defense space telescope that will look for asteroids and comets that could potentially pose a threat to Earth. Targeting launch NET Sept. 2027.

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https://science.nasa.gov/mission/neo-surveyor/

NEO Surveyor
Near-Earth Object Surveyor Space Telescope
Overview
Building on the success of NASA's NEOWISE space telescope, the agency's NEO Surveyor will be the first spacecraft created specifically to find large numbers of asteroids and comets that are potentially hazardous to Earth.
As it scans the solar system, NEO Surveyor's sensitive infrared detectors will track the most elusive near-Earth objects. Dark asteroids and comets don't reflect much visible light, for example, but they will glow in the infrared spectrum as they're heated by sunlight.
In addition, NEO Surveyor will be able to find asteroids that approach Earth from the direction of the Sun, as well as ones both leading and trailing our planet's orbit, where they are typically obscured by the glare of sunlight. All of these are threats that larger ground-based observatories could miss.
Use NASA's Eyes on Asteroids interactive (below) for a real-time visualization of every known asteroid or comet classified as a Near-Earth Object, or NEO.

Why We're Launching NEO Surveyor

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• Finding near-Earth objects is required by law.
• We can only do something about hazardous near-Earth objects if we can find them first.
• NEO Surveyor will find asteroids and comets that other space missions cannot, filling a critical gap in humanity's ability to detect potentially hazardous near-Earth objects.
• In addition to planetary defense, scientists will use data from NEO Surveyor for studies of near-Earth objects to learn more about the evolution of the solar system.

Инфракрасный телескоп для поиска астероидов и тёмных комет.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/neosurveyor/2025/02/11/nasas-neo-surveyor-successfully-completes-critical-design-review/

NASA's NEO Surveyor Successfully Completes Critical Design Review
On Feb. 6, NASA's NEO Surveyor (Near-Earth Object Surveyor) passed its critical design review, or CDR, at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, where the project is managed. Capping three days of presentations, a NASA Standing Review Board determined that the mission meets all technical performance measures and requirements. The project will now move forward to the next phases of construction and testing.
After being built at JPL, the spacecraft's instrument enclosure moved to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston for tests that replicate the environmental conditions of launch and space. It will soon return to NASA JPL, where work will continue.
Meanwhile, the mission's telescope, which is part of a large blocky aluminum structure called an Optical Telescope Assembly, is undergoing final testing at NASA JPL. This spring, both the telescope and instrument enclosure will ship to mission contractor Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) in Logan, Utah, where the rest of the subsystems will be integrated and tested.
As NASA's first space-based detection mission specifically designed for planetary defense, NEO Surveyor will seek out, measure, and characterize the hardest-to-find asteroids and comets that might pose a hazard to Earth. While these near-Earth objects don't reflect much visible light, they glow brightly in infrared light due to heating by the Sun.
Expected to launch no earlier than late 2027, the NEO Surveyor mission is led by Professor Amy Mainzer at UCLA for NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office. It is being developed by JPL under management of the Planetary Missions Program Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Aerospace and engineering companies have been contracted to build the spacecraft and its instrumentation, including BAE Systems, SDL, and Teledyne. The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder will support operations, and IPAC at Caltech in Pasadena, California, is responsible for processing survey data and producing the mission's data products. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

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https://vk.com/spacex?w=wall-41152133_519319

Не ранее сентября 2027 года ракета Falcon 9 запустит миссию NASA по планетарной защите – Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor

Космический аппарат представляет собой 50-сантиметровый телескоп, предназначенный для обнаружения астероидов и комет, которые могут представлять потенциальную угрозу для Земли. Это будет уже третья миссия по планетарной защите, запущенная на ракете SpaceX. Стоимость контракта на запуск составляет $100 млн.

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То есть проект СОДА таки реализуют, за который Б. Шустов ратовал. Правда, не наши а США.