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...
25 April 2016
Near-Earth asteroid population smaller than thought
... further information on this research, please see http://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.06328.pdf 1) Source http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov
01 July 2016
Asteroid Day was celebrated on June 30 – but what was it all about?
... asteroids that could end life on Earth as we know it, were one to impact. Based on what’s known about the NEO population and Earth’s impact history, scientists predict that Earth will experience another large-scale impact...
30 December 2016
NEOWISE spots two new objects heading our way
... the first week of 2017 and according to Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object (NEO) Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, "has a good chance of becoming visible through a good pair of binoculars...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
... Large Synoptic Survey Telescope); enhancing prediction of and preparedness for space hazards, notably Near Earth Objects (NEOs) and space weather; and harnessing the small satellite revolution. At present, it is too early to tell what official...
