Editing Solar sail (section)

===NEA Scout===
[[File:Near Earth Asteroid Scout.jpg|thumb|[[NEA Scout]] concept: a controllable [[CubeSat]] solar sail spacecraft]]
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The Near-Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout) was a mission jointly developed by [[NASA]]'s [[Marshall Space Flight Center]] (MSFC) and the [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] (JPL), consisting of a controllable low-cost [[CubeSat]] solar sail spacecraft capable of encountering [[near-Earth asteroid]]s (NEA).<ref>{{cite web |date=2015-10-30 |title=NEA Scout |url=https://www.nasa.gov/content/nea-scout |access-date=February 11, 2016 |publisher=NASA |archive-date=2017-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170523141323/https://www.nasa.gov/content/nea-scout/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Four {{cvt|7|m}} booms were to deploy, unfurling the {{cvt|83|m2}} aluminized polyimide solar sail.<ref name="McNutt">{{cite journal |last1=McNutt |first1=Leslie |last2=Castillo-Rogez |first2=Julie |date=2014 |title=Near-Earth Asteroid Scout |url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20140012882.pdf |journal=NASA |publisher=American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |access-date=2015-05-13}}</ref><ref name="Gunter2015">{{cite web |last=Krebs |first=Gunter Dirk |date=13 April 2015 |title=NEA-Scout |url=http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/nea-scout.htm |access-date=2015-05-13}}</ref><ref name="Castillo">{{cite web |last1=Castillo-Rogez |first1=Julie |last2=Abell |first2=Paul |title=Near Earth Asteroid Scout Mission |url=http://www.lpi.usra.edu/sbag/meetings/jul2014/presentations/0930_Thu_Castillo_NEAScout.pdf |access-date=2015-05-13 |work=NASA |publisher=Lunar and Planetary Institute}}</ref> In 2015, NASA announced it had selected NEA Scout to launch as one of several secondary payloads aboard [[Artemis 1]], the first flight of the agency's heavy-lift [[Space Launch System|SLS]] launch vehicle.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gebhardt |first=Chris |date=November 27, 2015 |title=NASA identifies secondary payloads for SLS's EM-1 mission |url=http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/11/nasa-identifies-secondary-payloads-sls-em-1/ |publisher=NASAspaceflight}}</ref> However, the craft was considered lost with the failure to establish communications shortly after launch in 2022.<ref name="Dickinson2022">{{cite news |last=Dickinson |first=David |date=6 December 2022 |title=Status Update: Artemis 1's SmallSat Missions |newspaper=Sky & Telescope |publisher=Sky&Telescope |url=https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/status-update-artemis-1s-smallsat-missions/ |access-date=8 December 2022}}</ref>