Nasa NEOWISE Mission will end 31st july replaced by NEO Surveyor

Nasa NEOWISE Mission: Many space missions become memorable for space agencies. NASA’s man who spent more than 14 years exploring in space NEOWISE mission It is ending now. NEOWISE stands for Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. The mission, launched in 2009, will be completed on July 31. For so many years, the NEOWISE telescope remained in low Earth orbit. It detected more than 44 thousand objects in our solar system. The telescope also surveyed more than 3000 near earth objects like asteroids etc. and discovered 215 of them.

As an alternative to NEOWISE, NASA has planned to launch NEO Surveyor i.e. Near Earth Object Surveyor Telescope, which is scheduled to be sent to space by the year 2027. This telescope will also detect those objects coming near the Earth, which can become a threat to our planet.

Telescopes have been installed all over the world to detect asteroids, meteoroids etc. Also, many telescopes do the same thing from space. For the last 14 years, NEOWISE mission has been engaged in protecting our planet from external threats. Initially this mission was prepared for a short period of time, but after reaching space, it gave very accurate results and scientists kept using it.

According to reports, NASA has developed a new technology to identify objects hidden near the Earth. The data obtained from NEOWISE played an important role in developing the technology. By ‘retiring’ this telescope, NASA will start exploring space with the new telescope. Apart from this, NEOWISE is not proving to be very useful in the solar maximum i.e. the speed with which the activities taking place in the Sun have increased. As a result, NASA needs a new telescope.

According to the report, on July 31, the spacecraft of NEOWISE telescope will go into hibernation mode. Then it will slowly start coming towards the Earth and by the end of this year or in the beginning of 2025, it will burn after entering the Earth’s atmosphere.