August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... even a Space Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG) - pronounced ‘same page’. We even have missions such as the B612 Foundation’s Sentinel Project that is planning to launch an infrared telescope that can scour the skies and give...
February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
... Foundation, the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS), the Association of Space Explorers, the B612 Foundation, NASA’s JPL cosmic hazards programmes, ESA’s Earthguard programme, the UN COPUOS Working Group on the Long...
30 June 2015
Debating Asteroid Day: NEOs, Dr. Brian May, the Catalina Sky Survey and more
... this month – we can’t protect ourselves from dangerous objects that aren’t adequately tracked. His organisation, the B612 Foundation, has now focused its efforts on building an infrared, cryogenic space telescope to put in orbit around the...
01 July 2016
Asteroid Day was celebrated on June 30 – but what was it all about?
... 1908 Tunguska event in Siberia. The four co-founders of Asteroid Day are: Dr Brian May, Danica Remy (COO of B612), Grigorij Richters and Rusty Schweickart. But what is an asteroid, anyways? The classification of celestial bodies is largely size...
26 February 2018
Handbook of Space Law
..., lunar exploration and space tourism have seen to that. Rusty Schweickart, 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...
30 June 2019
Asteroid day 2019
... musician Dr. Brian May of the rock group QUEEN; Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart; Filmmaker Grig Richters; and B612 President Danica Remy, to promote awareness and provide knowledge to the general public about the importance of asteroids...
