NEA Scout Stories

NASA Asteroid Experts Create Hypothetical Impact Scenario for Exercise

The fifth Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise focused on an asteroid impact scenario designed by NASA JPL’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies. A large asteroid impacting Earth is highly unlikely for the foreseeable future. But because the damage from…

NASA Solar Sail Mission to Chase Tiny Asteroid After Artemis I Launch

NEA Scout will visit an asteroid estimated to be smaller than a school bus – the smallest asteroid ever to be studied by a spacecraft. Launching with the Artemis I uncrewed test flight, NASA’s shoebox-size Near-Earth Asteroid Scout will chase…

NASA Solar Sail Asteroid Mission Readies for Launch on Artemis I

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect the correct metric conversion for NEA Scout’s camera resolution. NASA’s Near-Earth Asteroid Scout is tucked away safely inside the agency’s powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.…