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NASA's NEOWISE asteroid spotter turned off for final time
A mission that was supposed to last for less than a year went on for more than a decade
NEOWISE Mission Summary
Launch date, key findings and discoveries and mission summary for the NEOWISE space telescope, which is designed to detect and learn more about asteroids and comets, including those that could pose a threat to Earth.
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer - Wikipedia
Incidentally, there is a comet named in honor of it:
ESA Science & Technology - Hubble snaps close-up of comet NEOWISE [heic2015]
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the closest images yet of the sky's latest visitor to make the headlines, comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE, after it passed by the Sun. The new images of the comet were taken on 8 August and feature the visitor's coma, the fine shell that surrounds its...sci.esa.int
