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WISE Spacecraft Re-Activated to Hunt for Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 15:48
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Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft. Credit: NASA.
A hibernating spacecraft has been called back into service. The WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer”) spacecraft that has been sleeping in a polar orbit around Earth for two years will be turned back on next month to hunt for more potentially hazardous asteroids, and perhaps search for an asteroid that NASA could capture and explore in the future.
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