20 November 2020
The iconic Arecibo Observatory to be demolished due to safety concerns
... research into brown dwarfs, locating near-Earth objects (NEOs) understanding pulsars and helping to refine fundamental theories of... dish is also used by NASA to characterise known NEOs. Sadly, despite its world-wide, multidisciplinary use and...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... are believed to have trapped a large number of planetesimals that travelled the Solar System early on. In 2010 the NEO-WISE telescope discovered one of these Earth’s Trojan asteroids (2010 TK7). These asteroids are interesting not...
March 2018
Shifting lines and new horizons in Earth observation markets
... between space industry and space agencies will evolve from customer-supplier to a more cooperative approach. Pleiades NEO: a constellation of four VHR optical satellites developed by Airbus Defence & Space. The big challenge The European service...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... DE-STAR (Directed Energy System for Targeting of Asteroids and exploRation). DE-STAR aims to deflect near-Earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets that pose a credible risk of Earth impact. The DE-STAR engineering team has...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
... interested in the issue of planetary defence, which concerns potential Earth impacts from celestial bodies. He is a member of the NEO (Near Earth Object) working group in the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, and was one of the...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
.... Today, capable infrared telescopes in space and ground observatories are cataloguing the orbits of near Earth objects (NEOs) and monitoring the paths of potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) to predict the possibility of a major asteroid collision...
