Spitzer Spies Odd Asteroid | QuikScat Eyes Ocean Winds | OCO-2 Readies for Launch | NASA Hunts for Asteroids

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LATEST NEWS
	Spitzer Spies an Odd, Tiny Asteroid Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have measured the size of an asteroid candidate for NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), a proposed spacecraft concept to capture either a small asteroid, or a boulder from an asteroid. Read more
	QuikScat's Eye on Ocean Winds Lives On with RapidScat Today (June 19) marks the 15th anniversary of the launch of NASA's QuikScat, a satellite sent for a three-year mission in 1999 that continues collecting data. Built in less than 12 months, QuikScat has watched ocean wind patterns for 15 years and improved weather forecasting worldwide. Read more
	NASA’s OCO-2 Observatory Ready for Launch The launch of NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission (OCO-2) at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California, is scheduled for Tuesday, July 1. Read more
	NASA Announces Latest Progress in Hunt for Asteroids NASA is on the hunt for an asteroid to capture with a robotic spacecraft, redirect to a stable orbit around the moon, and send astronauts to study in the 2020s -- all on the agency's human Path to Mars. Read more