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NEO Surveyor
NASA · Launch: 2027 (target)
Infrared space telescope dedicated to finding potentially hazardous asteroids and comets.
Objective: Detect most near-Earth objects larger than 140 m.
Launch
Late 2027
Target date · may change
Mission details
- Rocket & spacecraft
- Falcon 9
- Destination
- Sun–Earth L1 point
- Duration
- 5 years nominal
- Infrared sees dark asteroids that visible-light telescopes miss.
- Fulfils a US Congress mandate to find 90% of NEOs over 140 m.
Milestones
0 of 1 reachedLaunch
2027Provisional
Future dates are agency targets, not confirmed schedules.
Curated dataset
Official source: NASA NEO Surveyor →