NEA Scout

The Near Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout) is a mission to fly a 6-unit Cubesat solar sail spacecraft by an asteroid. It is a joint project between the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), and NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC).

Links

 * JPL NEA Scout page
 * Wikipedia NEA Scout article
 * Design and Development of NEA Scout Solar Sail Deployer Mechanism