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Live From the Clean Room — Building NEO Surveyor [1]
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Date: 2024-08
Work on NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor has begun at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California; the first mission designed specifically to hunt comets and asteroids that could threaten Earth, it’s scheduled to launch in 2027, at the earliest. In the image above, a truck arrives at JPL on June 3, 2024, to deliver the Medium Articulating Transportation System (MATS), which will be used during the construction and transportation of components for NEO Surveyor. Originating at the aerospace company Beyond Gravity in Vienna, Austria, the MATS traveled via ship through the Panama Canal to Port Hueneme, California, before arriving by road at JPL. Construction has begun on NEO Surveyor's instrument enclosure in the High Bay 1 clean room at JPL's Spacecraft Assembly Facility. When the enclosure is complete later this year, it will be moved inside the MATS to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston for environmental testing. The MATS is a transportable clean room with its own filtration and climate control systems that keep the spacecraft and components clean, stable, and safe while being moved between facilities.
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