September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
... most to create new applications and services, opening up new markets to deliver jobs and growth ESA’s 2020 Asteroid Impact Mission will demonstrate a host of enabling technologies for future deep space missions, including advanced onboard autonomy...
March 2026
Humanity – the potential of space
... we have adapted to and overcome challenges, but we are now aware of existential threats capable of erasing civilisation as we know it. Asteroid impacts, supervolcanoes, nuclear war, pandemics, and climate change all loom over our future. While their...
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...
