The mission will be an ideal complement to ground-based NEO search programmes and should become operational in 2012, extending the search into regions of the sky that are difficult to observe or unobservable from the ground.
该任务将是对地面近地天体搜索项目的理想补充，该项目应于2012年运行，其搜索范围将扩展到从地面难以发现甚至无法发现的天空区域。