03 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx officially arrives at Bennu today
... another of NASA’s daring missions will get an up close look at it. Due to officially arrive today at the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, is the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security – Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx for short...
25 October 2019
Ride-sharing mission hopes to study asteroid up close
... part in Milo's NEOshare mission to launch a cluster of six small satellites to study a minimum of eight asteroids referred to as near-Earth asteroids. Costs for the Apophis Pathfinder and NEOshare missions depend on the level of participation. The...
29 November 2019
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget
... 2024, Hera is the European contribution to an international double-spacecraft collaboration. After travelling to the Didymos pair of near-Earth asteroids two years ahead of Hera, ESA’s partner NASA, will first perform a kinetic impact on the smaller...
05 March 2021
For the first time, organic materials essential for life have been found on the surface of an asteroid
... first time that organic materials essential for life on Earth have been found on the surface of asteroid. Discovered on 26 September, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro, New Mexico, 25143 Itokawa, or Itokawa...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
...are presented in the ‘resources chart’. Yet the prospect of space mining can provide new options. A modest near-Earth asteroid high in platinum content and approximately spherical in shape and 30 m in diameter would constitute a volume of 4,500 cubic...
June 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
... has not changed by more than 1.3 parts in a million in three billion years. As for Arecibo planetary radar observations of near-Earth asteroids, data from as far back as 1999 provided vital information on the orbit and physical properties of the NEA...
