Instrument Host Information
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| IDENTIFIER |
urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument_host:spacecraft.neas::1.1
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| NAME |
Near Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout) Spacecraft
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| TYPE |
Spacecraft
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| DESCRIPTION |
The NEA Scout spacecraft was a 60unit CubeSat (about 10cm x 20cm x 30cm, stowed) equipped with a controllable solar sail and designed as a technology demonstration of the capabilities of very small satellites for exploring very small (1-100m) near-Earth asteroids. It was one of 10 CubeSats launched by the Artemis 1 mission. Its target at time of launch was the near-Earth asteroid 2020GE, but after deployment from Artemis 1, contact with the CubeSat was never established, and (as of December 2022) it is considered lost.
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| REFERENCES |
T.R. Lockett, J. Castillo-Rogez, L. Johnson, J. Matus, J. Lightholder, A. Marinan, A. Few, Near-Earth Asteroid Scout Flight Mission, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, March 2020.
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