June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
... Astronaut Rusty Schweickart, planetary scientist Clark Chapman, and astrophysicist Piet Hut to found an organization called the B612 Foundation. Our goal was to explore ways to deflect or destroy threatening asteroids. As asteroids orbit the Sun and...
05 March 2018
Asteroid tracking program adds Google Cloud and AGI as tech partners
...co-founder of the company. For the past several years, B612 has been working on synthetic tracking technology, which the company...and the economic development of space, such as asteroid mining. B612 is also a founding partner of Asteroid Day, a global ...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... in a CME than about 20 years ago. The B612 Foundation Sentinel infrared telescope that could locate potentially hazardous asteroids... mind to launch a project called NEOCAM and the B612 Foundation (a private non-profit foundation with headquarters in ...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... NEOCAM and the ill-fated Sentinel project of the B612 Foundation. The space-based systems are, of course, ...There are millions of NEOs and, according to a report by the B612 Foundation at the global Meteor Conference in 2014, the probability of impact...
October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
... famous Russian venture capitalist Alexander Galitsky has decided he will not invest in domestic projects. Instead he is sponsoring B612, mainly based in the US and concentrating on protecting Earth from the asteroid threat. There is also another...
February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
... space billions of years ago [13][14][15], Earth is still hit by these Solar System leftovers on a regular basis. A study by the B612 Foundation revealed that, between 2000 and 2013, Earth was hit by 26 objects that exploded with a yield...
