{"id":10043,"date":"2024-08-09T21:31:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T13:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-sends-final-command-to-its-neowise-spacecraft-ending-more-than-a-decade-of-asteroid-observations\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T21:31:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T13:31:35","slug":"nasa-sends-final-command-to-its-neowise-spacecraft-ending-more-than-a-decade-of-asteroid-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-sends-final-command-to-its-neowise-spacecraft-ending-more-than-a-decade-of-asteroid-observations\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA sends final command to its NEOWISE spacecraft, ending more than a decade of asteroid observations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This 2013 artist\u2019s concept shows the NASA\u2019s WISE spacecraft, in its orbit around Earth. In September of 2013, engineers brought the mission out of hibernation to hunt for more asteroids and comets in a project called NEOWISE. Graphic: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A spacecraft that helped bolster planetary defense is now at the end of its operational mission. On Thursday, engineers at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California sent the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft into its final hibernation mode by shutting off its transmitter.<\/p>\n

The command, issued from the Earth Orbiting Missions Operations Center at JPL, brought to an end more than a decade of observations of comets and asteroids that helped further the understanding of celestial bodies that could potentially pose a threat to Earth.<\/p>\n