English: 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.
The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain.
The SOHO (ESA & NASA) joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use. [2]
Near-Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout) — это концепция миссии НАСА 2014 года по анализу, проектированию, разработке и запуску управляемого недорогого космического корабля CubeSat с солнечным парусом, способного сталкиваться с околоземными астероидами