NASA shuts down down asteroid-hunting NEOWISE telescope as the sun drags it to its doom
NASA Space Technology An artist’s concept of NASA’s asteroids-hunting NEOWISE satellite, which was decommissioned for good this week.(Image credit: ASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA‘s only space telescope dedicated to planetary defense has turned off its transmitter for the last time, ending its 15-year career detecting near-Earth asteroids and comets. The spacecraft — named NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared […]