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...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
... missions involving rendezvous, proximity operations and orbital servicing. Delegates at a threeday international Near-Earth Object (NEO) and Debris Detection Conference held at ESA’s ESOC centre in Germany this January. Business case Technavio...
03 February 2016
Luxembourg announces plan to mine asteroids
...'s biggest satellite firms, SES. Luxembourg now aims to help establish a space industry by mining ‘near-Earth objects’ (NEOs) for their metal and rare-Earth material content by collaborating with US and European commercial partners. Mining...
