Space & Aeronautics Regulatory Oversight
The Space & Aeronautics Regulatory Oversight (SARO) is a federal agency that coordinates space exploration missions on behalf of the U.S. government.
The agency was first featured in the episode CLOSE, where it embarked on a project called the Cometary Lander Orbiter Survey Expedition (C.L.O.S.E.) Mission sometime after July 13, 2021. The aim of the mission was to deploy a spacecraft consisting of a combined but separable orbiter and lander to get within range of a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) called 57838 Eidolon. Soon after the Lander made touchdown on the asteroid, the video distorted and blurred before abruptly ending.
