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NEOSSat
Catalogued as NEOSSAT
Asteroid Surveillance / Space Situational Awareness · Canadian Space Agency / DRDC
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The world's first space telescope designed specifically to hunt asteroids that lurk near the Sun — where ground-based telescopes are blinded by daylight. Canada's suitcase-sized satellite (65 kg, $12 million) scans the sky as close as 45 degrees from the Sun, spotting Aten-class asteroids that cross Earth's orbit from the inside. It doubles as a space surveillance asset, tracking satellites in high orbits that ground radar can't reach.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 478–487 mi (769–784 km)
- Inclination
- 98.4°
- One orbit
- 100.2 minutes14.4 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 39089
- Int’l designator
- 2013-009D
- Launched
- 2013
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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