September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... to utilise commercial weather data sources, increasing funding for FAA/AST and eliminating funding for the Asteroid Redirect Mission. All of these are policies promoted by the American Space Renaissance Act. As Congress continues to work through the...
24 March 2023
Close approach to Earth and Moon of newly discovered asteroid
...protect Earth from potential threats from outer space is NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirect) mission launched in 2021 with the intention of changing the orbit of an asteroid. The spacecraft successfully crashed into the smaller moonlet of a binary...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
... both intentional and unintentional This is a contact less technique that has also been considered for asteroid redirection missions. As shown in the image, a hovering spacecraft (called a shepherd) exerts a thrust force on target debris by directing...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... arrives in Orion for EM-4, the prototype assembly platform will be delivered by solar electric propulsion. The Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) will also be demonstrating solar electric propulsion (SEP) capability to transport large masses in deep...
12 December 2017
Trump signs Space Policy Directive 1
... NASA to focus on sending astronauts direct to the Red Planet with an interim project that included the controversial Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM). Like the ill-fated programmes commissioned before it, ARM too was disbanded when Trump became...
