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- Blue Origin, the space company co-founded by Jeff Bezos, announced a Near-Earth Objects (NEO) Hunter mission with NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab to test asteroid-deflection techniques.
- The mission will use Blue Origin's in-development Blue Ring spacecraft to launch small cubesats that will analyze near-Earth objects.
- Techniques include ion-beam deflection and kinetic impact.
- NASA's NEO Surveyor mission is scheduled to launch in 2027 to detect hazardous asteroids.
