Lost · Failure
NASA's NEA Scout was a CubeSat launched as a secondary payload on Artemis I to study and photograph asteroid 2020 GE. Communication was never established after deployment, and NASA's Planetary Data System considers it lost.
- Destinations
- Launch vehicle
- SLS Block 1 Crew
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral, United States
- Countries
- United States
- Mission types
- Flyby
Chronology
Mission timeline
Mission architecture
Vehicles
NEA Scout · Spacecraft · lost
Destinations: 2020 GE
Trajectory record
Trajectory dataset not yet available
No verified trajectory dataset is committed for this mission, so Mission Atlas renders no path.
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through September 4, 2026
- Artemis I - NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog — NSSDCAMission page · Supports: mission claims
- NEA Scout - NASA Science — NASAMission page · Supports: mission claims · destination/body context · event claims
- Near Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout) Spacecraft - NASA PDS — NASAMission page · Supports: mission claims · destination/body context
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context