Image: Near Earth Asteroid Scout

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Description: Near-Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout) is a 2014 mission concept by NASA to analyze, design, develop, and fly a controllable low-cost CubeSat solar sail spacecraft capable of encountering near-Earth asteroids (NEA). The goal is to develop a capability that would close knowledge gaps at a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) in the 1-100 m range identified for human exploration. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are jointly examining this mission concept. It would be a secondary payload on the first planned flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) scheduled to launch in December 2017.
Title: Near Earth Asteroid Scout
Credit: NASA: http://www.space.com/29374-nasa-cubesat-rocket-launch-system.html
Author: NASA
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