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Another NEO Hunting System Progressing - PMSchu - 2023-01-04

Here's a description of another spacecraft system designed to detect NEOs from the L2, L4 & L5 LaGrange points:

Breakthrough for Finding Asteroids and Tracking Space Debris | NextBigFuture.com

It uses a cluster of 30cm telescopes & special software that looks similar to the Tycho Tracker software that can stack signals from moving objects to gain the benefits of multiple exposures to increase SNR.

Phil S.