April 2025
Space Elevators - a role in planetary defence?
..., assess and mitigate objects approaching Earth. A Near-Earth Orbit (NEO) survey in January 2020 found only 18.2 percent of 140-300 ...mass evacuations from a predicted impact location, when a NEO could not be prevented from hitting Earth. Two ...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... al “Deflecting a Hazardous Near Earth Object”, presented at the 1st International Planetary Defense Conference, http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/pdc_paper.html, April 2009. 9 Brophy et al, “Synergies of Robotic Asteroid Redirection Technologies and Human...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
...-profit foundation with headquarters in the United States and dedicated to planetary defence against asteroids and other NEOs) is building its Sentinel spacecraft. Both of these infrared telescope satellites could greatly increase our ability to spot...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
... in their mutual interest to increase detection and characterisation of asteroids. NASA has a mandate to find Near-Earth Objects (NEO), and Planetary Resources is looking to learn more about asteroids that may be of material value. The actual method...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... efficient searches for targets such as near-Earth objects (NEOs) and exoplanets. With the simultaneous increase in satellite numbers... image are much higher. The exact risk we face from NEOs is uncertain, since our census of the smaller objects that ...
30 June 2017
A line up of global events for Asteroid Day 2017
...-on approach for dealing with the threat of a collision by a near-Earth object (NEOs) and has started to build a co-ordination centre in Paris where data on NEOs is available to European researchers and the public alike. “At ESA, we want to observe...
