{"id":63344,"date":"2019-01-04T19:31:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T11:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-eager-for-near-earth-object-detection-satellite\/"},"modified":"2019-01-04T19:31:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T11:31:57","slug":"nasa-eager-for-near-earth-object-detection-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-eager-for-near-earth-object-detection-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Eager for Near-Earth Object Detection Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Far behind schedule in its congressional charge to find nearly all the Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) that could pose an \u201cexistential threat\u201d to the U.S., <strong>NASA<\/strong> is seeking advice on the technology options for a proposed space-based telescope dedicated to the search.<\/p>\n<p>NASA officials emphasized the need for the satellite, designated the Near Earth Object Camera (NEOCam), at a Dec. 19 meeting of a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee on NEO observations. Even with NEOCam, meeting a congressional mandate to locate 90% of near-Earth objects that are 140 meter or larger in size is expected to take until 2034 at the earliest \u2014 well past the 2020 deadline established in the 2005 NASA authorization act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Read more at Physics Today &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far behind schedule in its congressional charge to find nearly all the Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) that could pose an \u201cexistential threat\u201d to the U.S., NASA is seeking advice on the technology options for a proposed space-based telescope dedicated to the search. NASA officials emphasized the need for the satellite, designated the Near Earth Object Camera [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}