NASA has licensed the construction of a telescope that is supposed to detect 90% of the large asteroids orbiting the Earth. The telescope, known as the NEO Surveyor, has finally overcome NASA's most important challenge and a chance to survive, according to an expert.
NASA has allowed the NEO Surveyor space telescope project to move to the next stage, the "preliminary design" phase, after extensive research. The infrared telescope is designed to detect most large and dangerous asteroids from a distance of 48 million kilometers from Earth's orbit.
"The NEO Surveyor will be able to accelerate a mission through which NASA will identify asteroids and comets that are at risk for Earth," said Mike Kelly, a NEO Surveyor scientist. "The telescope is designed to detect 90 percent of asteroids 140 meters or larger in the first decade of its operation."
Detecting, identifying and tracking near-ground hazards is essential in the shortest possible time to ensure that we can take the necessary measures to defend ourselves. NASA will test its deviant technology later in the year with a physical collision technique on a mission called DART.
An asteroid that entered the Earth's atmosphere over Russia in 2013
Although the known century does not pose a known threat to Earth, unforeseen collisions by unknown objects such as the 2013 incident in Russia continue to put us at risk. This is especially important for objects that come to us during the day and in the direction of the sun and can not be detected by ground-based telescopes.
NASA's approval of the NEO Surveyor brings the telescope one step closer to launch. However, apparently there is still a long way to go before the launch, and according to the current schedule, we will have to wait until the first half of 2026 to launch this telescope.
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