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Ready for its day in the Sun ☀️
Teams completed integrating solar arrays onto NEO Surveyor’s sunshade - a structure designed to block the Sun’s glare, keep the telescope cool, and provide power as it searches for near-Earth asteroids and comets.
🔗 go.nasa.gov/4kvs5z5
ALT The large sunshade of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor mission is inspected by a technician at BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in late July. Credit: BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems
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Space science is so wild when you see the actual hardware they gotta build for it
Ready for its day in the Sun ☀️
Teams completed integrating solar arrays onto NEO Surveyor’s sunshade - a structure designed to block the Sun’s glare, keep the telescope cool, and provide power as it searches for near-Earth asteroids and comets.
🔗 go.nasa.gov/4kvs5z5
ALT The large sunshade of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor mission is inspected by a technician at BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in late July. Credit: BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems
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"Ready for its day in the Sun 🌞"
The solar arrays integrated onto NASA's NEO Surveyor sunshade structure were manufactured by @RocketLab, Albuquerque space systems team.🔬🔧
Ready for its day in the Sun ☀️
Teams completed integrating solar arrays onto NEO Surveyor’s sunshade - a structure designed to block the Sun’s glare, keep the telescope cool, and provide power as it searches for near-Earth asteroids and comets.
🔗 go.nasa.gov/4kvs5z5
ALT The large sunshade of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor mission is inspected by a technician at BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in late July. Credit: BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems
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