NEOMIR: ESA’s space-based infrared mission for NEO detection and early warning
The Near-Earth Object Mission in the Infra-Red (NEOMIR) is the first ESA’s space-based mission fully dedicated to discovering near-Earth objects (NEOs), with a focus to detect and raise early warning for the smaller objects that are coming from the Sun direction, thus nearly impossible to be detected by ground-based optical survey. NEOMIR is currently in the early phases of mission study (phase A), with a potential launch date in the early 2030s.
Authors
- K. Muinonen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8058-2642)
- L. Conversi
- A. Fitzsimmons (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0250-9911)
- J. Licandro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9214-337X)
- Richard Moissl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9244-9192)
- Marco Delbó (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8963-2404)
- Marcel Popescu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8585-204X)
- P. Tanga (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2718-997X)
- Thomas G. Muller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0717-0462)
Institutions
- Queen's University Belfast (GB)
- University of Helsinki (FI)
- University of Leicester (GB)
- Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (DE)
- Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur (FR)
- Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (ES)
- European Space Research Institute (IT)
- Romanian Academy (RO)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2024-08-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018505
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.66