August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
...OST and creates a stable foundation for a new industry. More than 13,000 asteroids considered near Earth have been studied with more discovered every year. These near-Earth asteroids represent a resource base that can transform humanity’s future. The...
30 June 2015
Debating Asteroid Day: NEOs, Dr. Brian May, the Catalina Sky Survey and more
... reminding the world of the destructive power potential of near earth objects (NEOs) that sometimes find their way into ...urging to accelerate the discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids 100 fold. Famous signatories already include everyone from...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
...commercial space companies more creative, more productive and better structured to cope with them. All near-Earth asteroid discoveries as of 5 January Technologies for planetary defence It is ironic that, at a time when human knowledge and technology...
February 2016
Data Systems to Support Early Warning of Spaceborne Emergency Situations
...build the DAS trajectory, taking into account the disturbance input from Earth, the Moon and planets. Calculations of close encounters of near-Earth asteroids are performed automatically. The probability of collision and possible crash sites, as well...
January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
...), in mid-2018 NASA is developing its own deep space solar sail mission called the Near Earth Asteroid Scout. NASA plans to send humans to a Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) in the early part of the next decade as part of a long-range plan to send...
08 September 2016
Close encounters of the asteroid kind: 2016 RB1 passes remarkably close to Earth
...and an aphelion greater than 0.983 astronomical units – though in reality, nearly all Aten asteroids have an aphelion greater than 1 AU. Aten asteroids make up about 6% of known near-earth asteroids. The first week of September has seen more than its...
