04 February 2022
NASA’s real-life “Don’t Look Up” programme
... finding asteroids before they find us, so if necessary, we can get them before they get us” said Kelly Fast, Near-Earth Object Observations Program Manager for NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office. “With the addition of these two telescopes...
January 2018
Creating a viable cislunar economy
...robust space economy. The first place to begin is cislunar space, the Earth, Moon and the immediate neighbourhood, including the region that contains near Earth objects (NEOs) or asteroids. Figure 1: the geography of cislunar space, the key locations...
13 February 2024
Thales Alenia Space to provide comms for planetary defence mission
...for launch in 2028, is to advance efforts to defend our planet against near-Earth objects like asteroids and comets, specifically within 50 million kilometres of Earth’s orbit. NEO Surveyor will employ an infrared space telescope designed to discover...
06 January 2017
NASA selects three new missions to study the early solar system and energetic X-rays from black holes
...potential projects that included studying gases on Venus and a Near Earth Object camera. However it was plans to study an era less...one plane. “We cannot directly image what’s going on near objects like black holes and neutron stars, but studying the ...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... on debris. A model for such could be the Minor Planet Center (MPC), which acts in a similar function for near-Earth objects and employs a staff of only six full-time employees [22]. Such a centre would fill a need, as currently there...
February 2016
Data Systems to Support Early Warning of Spaceborne Emergency Situations
... Propulsion Laboratory; the Small Bodies Node (SBN), part of the Planetary Data System at NASA; and the Near Earth Objects Dynamic Site (NEODyS). Russia has also developed its own software, programs and databases. These include...
