...In tandem with this test, we are preparing the Near-Earth Object Surveyor Mission, an space-based infrared telescope scheduled for... and comets that come within 30 million miles of Earth’s orbit.” The spacecraft will intercept the Didymos system ...
...the rise of mammals. Today, capable infrared telescopes in space and ground observatories are cataloguing the orbits of near Earth objects (NEOs) and monitoring the paths of potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) to predict the possibility of a major...