13 September 2017
New constellation to reshape Earth observation market
... real time.’ By using SpaceDataHighway in its Pléiades Neo constellation, Airbus’s satellites will be able to immediately ... Airbus Defence and Space. “The fact that Pléiades Neo is equipped with the latest Laser Communication Technology gives our ...
January 2018
Creating a viable cislunar economy
..., including the region that contains near Earth objects (NEOs) or asteroids. Figure 1: the geography of cislunar ... in the 5-10 percent range. In addition, many asteroids, including NEOs, are thought to contain large quantities of water. And we believe...
December 2014
Finding NEO
... smaller PHAs with diameters of 140m requires larger telescopes, with larger cameras, than are currently deployed in NEO-hunting. A cost-effective measure is a 10-metre class, ground-based observatory equipped with a large camera and sophisticated...
October 2015
From NEOs to real action: testing asteroid impact scenarios
... with the angle of its approach to the Earth and the density, diameter, composition and structure of the NEO. Therefore, tracking is essential in order to effectively be able to determine the impact effects. Reliance and dependence on the information...
04 February 2022
NASA’s real-life “Don’t Look Up” programme
...for NASA’s continuous effort to find, track, and monitor NEOs.” UH IfA developed the first two ATLAS telescopes in Hawai... On 22 January, ATLAS-Sutherland in South Africa discovered its first NEO, 2022 BK, a 100 m asteroid that poses no threat to Earth...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
.... The movie comes a few years after Scott’s other sci-fi masterpiece, Alien. He develops, in Blade Runner, a similar neo-noir atmosphere, albeit this time set in a decaying city rather than on a spacecraft. This particular view of the...
