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
Time-dependent navigation trajectory
Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.
Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.
- NEA Scout: Historical mission plan · actual flight not reconstructed · November 16, 2022 to June 30, 2023
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through October 12, 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
- NEA Scout Flight Mission - NTRS — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Artemis I Mission: Launch and Early Trajectory Operations — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context