Questions tagged [neo-surveyor]
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What is NEOCam's (now NEO Surveyor) strategy for scanning the sky? Need to consider in which coordinate system?
In Survey Simulations of a New Near-Earth Asteroid Detection System it can be seen that Infrared astronomer Amy Mainzer gave the scanning strategy of the horizon in a paper, but I am very confused ...
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How will NEO Surveyor manage 82 gigabits/day of data? How will it process it, what fraction will be sent to Earth and how it compares to TESS & GAIA?
Wikipedia says says:
NEO Surveyorformerly called Near-Earth Object Camera (NEOCam), then NEO Surveillance Mission, is a planned space-based infrared telescope designed to survey the Solar System for ...
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What is the name of the new NEO searching telescope "heavily based on" NEOCam? (now NEO Surveyor)
Space.com's NASA Wants a New Space Telescope to Protect Us All from Dangerous Asteroids quotes "Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate" several times, ...
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How will the "fleet of small asteroid hunters" proposed by the B612 Foundation & York Space Systems work?
The June 2018 news item in Science To find small asteroids that could hit Earth, private foundation embraces small satellites says:
On 10 May, B612 announced a partnership with York Space Systems, a ...
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What does this paper say is wrong (quantitatively and procedurally) with WISE & NeoWISE asteroid data?
I don't have daily access to the journal Icarus so when I read the New York Times article Asteroids and Adversaries: Challenging What NASA Knows About Space Rocks; Two years ago, NASA dismissed and ...
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Why has the Earth-Sun libration point L1 been chosen over L2 for NEOCam (now NEO Surveyor) to detect new NEOs?
above: Profoundly not-to-scale illustration of NEOCam in an orbit around the Sun-Earth libration point L1, about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. Presumably Sun-shield and Earth-shield block light (...
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