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    NASA’s Next-Gen Near-Earth Asteroid Space Telescope Takes Shape

    Technicians in white cleanroom suits carefully maneuver a large, gold-mirrored space telescope component draped in silver thermal insulation as it is lowered onto a specialized mounting platform.

    The Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor — NASA’s first infrared space telescope purposely designed to discover potentially hazardous asteroids and comets — is undergoing integration and testing. With launch set for no earlier than September 2027, teams across the United States are hard at work building the spacecraft’s components, planning the kind of survey and science […]

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