Near Earth Asteroid Scout exhibit

Key components of one of NASA’s latest missions, the Near Earth Asteroid Scout or NEA Scout, are on display in the “Dare to Explore: Frontiers of Space” exhibit. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) manages the NEA Scout mission, a solar-sail propelled CubeSat that flew on Artemis I in 2022 with the goal of capturing pictures of a near-Earth asteroid.

The exhibit includes both a half-scale model of the shoebox-sized CubeSat and a deployed solar sail. A display case holds a full-scale NEA Scout CubeSat model with deployed solar panels as well as the model of a CubeSat dispenser like the one that carried NEA Scout to space.