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What is the approved budget of NEO Surveyor?

NEO Surveyor is NASA's infrared space telescope for finding and characterising at least 90 percent of potentially hazardous near-Earth objects larger than 140 m within 30 million miles of Earth's orbit, developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory with the University of Arizona leading the survey investigation. NASA announced on 6 December 2022 that the mission passed Key Decision Point C, committing to a development cost baseline of USD 1.2 billion (not including launch) and to be ready for launch no later than June 2028, double the USD 500 to 600 million estimated when it was started as a directed mission.

Approved budget

$1.2 billion

Cost basis: 2022

In this illustration showing NEO Surveyor, NASA's next-generation near-Earth object hunter, the spacecraft floats in an infrared starfield containing stars, star clusters, gas, and dust. More than 100 asteroids can be seen as red dots, with some of them visible in a track that shows how they were captured at different times as they marched across the sky. This starfield was observed by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, during its primary all-sky survey in March 2010 before it
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Timeline

  1. 2027

    Current completion estimate

    NASA

  2. 2028

    Planned completion

    NEO Surveyor original schedule baseline

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