August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... and German research institutions are participating in both missions. Engineers are working on the preliminary design of ESA’s Asteroid impact mission concept which includes a lander. If it comes to fruition touchdown would occur in late 2022. The...
10 June 2020
New map boosts chances of finding water on the Moon
...plunk down money to drill.” Their research found that over time, asteroid impacts had a sizeable affect on the lunar ice as it lead ...moon-miners. “The idea of mining the moon and asteroids isn’t science fiction anymore,” said UCF physics Professor and...
26 February 2018
Handbook of Space Law
..., Apollo 9 astronaut and co-founder of the B612 Foundation (a group with interests in defending Earth from asteroid impacts), makes an entertaining observation in his foreword. “As an astronaut I never expected to be interested in, let alone involved...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
...profound Our civilisation has many, well-publicised challenges, including natural disasters with global effects – such as asteroid impacts, supervolcano eruptions and ice ages; the ever-present threat of nuclear weapons, extremism and other political...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
...own giving planets stability and shielding them from asteroid collisions, and liquid inner cores of planets producing...desired effect For instance, giant volcanic eruptions and asteroid impacts are the most likely explanations for many mass extinctions...
March 2015
Twinkle, twinkle satellite
... of space debris as entering the mainstream. In fact, it may end up doing what “Armageddon” did for the threat of asteroid impact. It is very hard to distract the public from their petty little problems on Earth so that they may consider...
