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class='col-md-12'> <div class='project_page_title'> <h1 class='page_title'> NEO Surveyor </h1> <h4 class='page_title full_name'> Near-Earth Object Surveyor </h4> </div> <div class='clearfix'></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='container offset_container'> <div class='row'> <div class='col-md-12'> <div class='content_box'> <div class='abstract_box'> <div class='row'> <div class='col-md-9'> <div class='abstract'> <p> <strong> Overview: </strong> NEO Surveyor is a new mission that is designed to discover and characterize most of the potentially hazardous asteroids that are near the Earth. NEO Surveyor consists of an infrared telescope and wide-field camera operating at thermal infrared wavelengths. NEO Surveyor's primary science objectives are to assess the present-day risk of near-Earth object (NEO) impact, study the origin and ultimate fate of our solar system's asteroids, and find the most suitable NEO targets for future exploration by robots and humans. The NEO Surveyor mission has been funded for development by NASA, with a launch date of no later than June 2028. </p> </div> </div> <div class='col-md-3'> <div class='related_links'> <dl> <div class='sidebar_title'> Links </div> <dd> <a href="https://neos.epss.ucla.edu/" target="_ipac">Near-Earth Object Surveyor Homepage <i class='fa fa-external-link'></i> </a></dd> <dd> <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/mission/neo-surveyor/" target="_ipac">NASA NEO Surveyor website <i class='fa fa-external-link'></i> </a></dd> <dd> <a href="" target=""> </a></dd> </dl> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='raw raw_offset'> <p> IPAC is the NEO Surveyor Survey Data Center, building upon its long heritage supporting NASA's major infrared sky surveys and detecting and characterizing small bodies in the solar system.  IPAC is responsible for NEO Surveyor survey data processing and archiving of the final survey and engineering data products.  IPAC distributes NEO Surveyor image and extracted source data via the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive, and works with the IAU Minor Planet Center and NASA Planetary Data System to release solar system object detections and physical characterizations to the science community.</p> </div> </div> <div class='clearfix'></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='fluid_box news_box'> <div class='container'> <div class='row'> <div class='col-md-12'> <h4> Mission News </h4> </div> </div> <div class='row'> <div class='col-md-4'> <div class='card_box project_news_card'> <a href="/news/work-is-under-way-on-nasa-s-next-generation-asteroid-hunter" target="_IPAC_neo-surveyor"><div class='card_image'> <img alt="1-pia26386-16x9.width-1320" src="/system/news_items/images/334/original/1-PIA26386-16x9.width-1320.jpg?1724980942" /> <div class='card_title'> <h5 class='text_shadow'> Work Is Under Way on NASA’s Next-Generation Asteroid Hunter </h5> </div> </div> <p class='small text_flair'> Project News • August 30th, 2024 </p> <p> The mirrors for NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other... </p> </a><div class='clearfix'></div> </div> </div> <div class='col-md-4'> <div class='card_box project_news_card'> <a href="/news/332" target="_IPAC_neo-surveyor"><div class='card_image'> <img alt="Jpl_clean_room_2024-08-21" src="/system/news_items/images/332/original/JPL_Clean_Room_2024-08-21.png?1724280851" /> <div class='card_title'> <h5 class='text_shadow'> Live From the Clean Room — Building NEO Surveyor </h5> </div> </div> <p class='small text_flair'> Project News • August 21st, 2024 </p> <p> Watch as NASA’s next planetary defense mission comes together at the JPL. </p> </a><div class='clearfix'></div> </div> </div> <div class='col-md-4'> <div class='card_box project_news_card'> <a href="https://blogs.nasa.gov/NEOSurveyor/" target="_IPAC_neo-surveyor"><div class='card_image'> <img alt="Neo_surveyor" src="/system/news_items/images/255/original/NEO_Surveyor.jpg?1670452128" /> <div class='card_title'> <h5 class='text_shadow'> NASA’s NEO Surveyor Successfully Passes Key Milestone </h5> </div> </div> <p class='small text_flair'> Project News • December 7th, 2022 </p> <p> Agency officials have completed a rigorous technical and programmatic review, known as Key Decision Point C (KDP-C),... </p> </a><div class='clearfix'></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='row'> <div class='col-md-4'> <div class='card_box project_news_card'> <a href="/news/252" target="_IPAC_neo-surveyor"><div class='card_image'> <img alt="Neos_logo" src="/system/news_items/images/252/original/neos_logo.jpg?1669070894" /> <div class='card_title'> <h5 class='text_shadow'> NEO Surveyor Project Passes Preliminary Design Review </h5> </div> </div> <p class='small text_flair'> Project News • October 12th, 2022 </p> <p> The NEO Surveyor Project recently passed the Project’s Preliminary Design Review (PDR), a major milestone in the NASA... </p> </a><div class='clearfix'></div> </div> </div> <div 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