The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced that the orbiting telescope NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) will make its final observations on July 31, enter sleep mode on August 8, and burn up in late 2024 or early 2025. Earth’s atmosphere.
NEOWISE It has been in orbit for over 14 years and has made many observations during that time. The telescope has helped study distant galaxies, asteroids and comets in the solar system. Over the years of operation, the instrument has provided data on 3,000 near-Earth asteroids, 215 of which were first discovered by the NEOWISE instruments.
2027 NASA plans to launch a successor into orbit NEOWISE — the new NEO Surveyor infrared telescope, which will be busy searching for and detecting asteroids and comets that could threaten Earth.