NASA's NEA Scout mission is the next exciting chapter for solar sail technology.
The space agency's massive Space Launch System will send the Orion capsule beyond the moon and back, but that's not all. It's also launchingOne of these, the Near-Earth Asteroid Scout mission, will deploy a solar sail once it reaches space, allowing it to propel itself towards a nearby asteroid using photons from the sun. Once there,NASA's NEA Scout will sail on sunlight
The NEA scout mission is a joint project between NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. It's one of several missions deploying solar sailing technology after the Planetary Society proved the technology is viable with its LightSail 2 mission in 2019.
In NASA's statement, Les Johnson, the mission’s principal technology investigator at Marshall, suggested the solar sail technology will be key to keeping mission costs relatively low. "The genesis of this project was a question: Can we really use a tiny spacecraft to do deep space missions and produce useful science at a low cost? This is a huge challenge," Johnson said.
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