On the recordMarch 14, 2011
Do you intend to continue the program?
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Senator Nelson inquires about the continuation of a program.
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We go with commercial partners because the third mission, we are going into lunar orbit.
We cannot identify every object. However, NEO Surveyor will be able to identify 90 percent of all the potential asteroids that are greater than 140 meters wide within the 10 years of the launch.
There are, in fact, private companies that are getting into the business now of supersonic transports, but they do not have this characteristic.
Is there a market out there to cut that almost in half? And I suspect there is.