NASA’s Solar Sail Spacecraft UNFOLDS in Deep Space! (You’ve Never Seen Anything Like This 🚀🌞)

The Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, or NEA Scout, is a robotic reconnaissance mission that will deploy a 6U CubeSat to fly by and return data from an asteroid representative of possible human destinations. Using a solar sail for its propulsion system, it will perform reconnaissance of an asteroid, take pictures and observe its position in space. Launching on NASA's Space Launch System rocket, the CubeSat deployment animation starts at the 1:44 timecode with the solar sail deployment animation beginning at the 3:22 timecode. The NEA Scout team is currently evaluating a range of targets, and is continually updating the candidate pool based on new discoveries and expected performance. NEA Scout is one of three payloads selected by NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate. These small satellites were chosen to address Strategic Knowledge Gaps (SKGs) and help inform research ...more
• Date Created:2021-02-10
• Center:MSFC
• Keywords: ARTEMIS I , NEA SCOUT , NEAR EARTH ASTEROID , SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM , CUBE SAT , CUBESAT , MSFC , SOLAR SAIL , SAIL , SECONDARY PAYLOAD , ANIMATION , MUSIC , SATELLITE
• Albums: 1_Space_Launch_System, SLS
• Secondary Creator Credit: ADVANCED EXPLORATION SYSTEMS
• Location:MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, AL
• Photographer:SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM PROGRAM

Deep Space by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

NASA Footage, Space Exploration, Astronauts in Space, Rocket Launch, International
Space Station (ISS), Mars Rover, Spacewalk, Spacecraft Docking, Earth from Space, Zero Gravity, Moon Mission, Space Technology, NASA Recovery Test, Space Science, Deep Space Exploration, Space Capsule Landing, NASA Astronauts, Space Shuttle Launch, Planetary Exploration, NASA Operations.