NEOSSat is a pioneering space telescope that has been designed to detect and track asteroids, comets, satellites and space debris.
| Name of Satellite | NEOSSat (Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite) |
| Purpose | Space Observation |
| Contractor | Microsat Systems Canada Inc. |
| Country of Contractor | Canada |
| Launch Mass (kg.) | 74 |
| Class of Orbit | LEO |
| Perigee (km) | 772 |
| Date of Launch | 25.02.2013 |
| Launch Site | Satish Dhawan Space Centre |
| Launch Vehicle | PSLV |
| COSPAR Number | 2013-009D |
| NORAD Number | 39089 |
NEOSSat space observation satellite, which is the size of a suitcase, orbits at an altitude of approximately 800 kilometres above Earth. It circles the globe every 100 minutes, scanning space near the Sun in order to identify asteroids and comets that may potentially pass close to Earth in the future.
