{"id":667379,"date":"2026-10-28T02:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/667379\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T02:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:02:13","slug":"nasas-neo-surveyor-sunshade-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/667379\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Neo Surveyor Sunshade &#8211; NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A technician inspects the large sunshade of <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/neo-surveyor\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">NASA\u2019s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission<\/a> in this image released on Oct. 26, 2026. The <a href=\"https:\/\/images.nasa.gov\/details\/PIA26665\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">sunshade structure<\/a>, which stands 20 feet (6 meters) tall and measures 8 feet (2.4 meters) wide at its base, will keep the infrared space telescope cool as it searches for near-Earth asteroids and comets while also providing the spacecraft with power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When in space, NEO Surveyor will detect some of the hardest-to-find asteroids and comets, some of which may be located in the direction of the Sun \u2014 a region of sky where ground-based optical telescopes have a harder time searching.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/blogs\/neo-surveyor\/2026\/10\/26\/sunshade-for-nasas-neo-surveyor-mission-ready-for-its-day-in-sun\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about the sunshade and NEO Surveyor.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image credit: BAE Systems Space &amp; Mission Systems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A technician inspects the large sunshade of NASA\u2019s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission in this image released on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-667379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}